Recycling programs are no better, they're "feel good" programs at best. One of the greatest cons in history is plastic manufacturers convincing the world that making individuals responsible for properly disposing of the dangerous materials was a better option than just requiring manufacturers to make a less toxic product in the first place.<br><br>I would also guess that, if we had took all the money, time, and resources sunk into recycling programs, and put them toward making a more renewable material instead, we would probably have that better material by now.,(reply>), @Lord of Nothing fun facts:<br>Most people don't take the time to recycle very much, if at all; believing that human beings will always dutifully choose responsibility over convenience is noble but naively unrealistic<br><br>Most plastic that people do take the time to sort and/or try to recycle ends up in the landfill or ocean anyway, or shipped overseas where it ends up in the landfill, ocean, or burned<br><br>Most plastic is too difficult to recycle even if it does make its way to a facility; less than 10% makes it through the full process<br><br>"Recycling" plastic doesn't make it magically go away, it just gets reformed (through a process horrible for the environment) into a lower grade plastic and reused that way; all we're doing is delaying the inevitable, not fixing anything, because you can only recycle a few times before it's too low grade to recycle again,(reply>), yeah. that was really smart of the plastic industry. big shame this happened :(<br><br>but still, recycling IS better than putting it into a landfill or into the ocean :/?,(reply>), A lot of things in the world would be nicer if SOME human aren't greedy bastards.