It's interesting what recycling could do in terms of archeology. Imagine they dig and find nothing because everything is recycled. Or, in a more wonderful case, we've recycled all the rubbish and died and some extraterrestrial explorer comes here and finds that there was a civilization that came from nowhere, was being here for 50 years and died.,(reply>), recycling as a whole is largely misconstrued and interpreted, there was a thing done in the uk to show that a lot of plastic waste when put into recycling ends up being filtered and thrown to landfill by the recycle plant itself.<br>90% of people I could guarantee don't even correctly look at what category there recyclable waste is and end up dumping it incorrectly leading to just what i said, having the recycle plant just sending it off to landfill because of the cost of resorting and refining it properly.<br>same way uk doesn't even barely process plastic bag waste, sold off to china.