Is There a Recycleable Plastic?

I think we're all so anxious about it. We don't know what to do. And especially this complete contradiction, I have been taught that I as an individual am responsible for saving the planet by making sure to recycle my plastics. It erodes trust in the systems that are telling us to please recycle. If enough of us are frustrated enough, but we also practice this, we do recycle, that's a great raw material for what could become an effective political agitation to make plastic recycling real. if that's chemically possible.

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