Plastic and glass belong in landfills

“As Kinnaman discovered in a 2014 study – a complete life cycle analysis of the recycling process – it currently doesn't make much economic or environmental sense to recycle plastic and glass in much of the developed world. Both of these materials are fairly easy on the environment to produce, but oftentimes very tricky and intense to recycle. When you factor in all of the water used to decontaminate plastic and glass, the immense distances traversed transporting them (usually by truck, train or ship), and the mechanical and chemical processes utilized to transform them into new goods, it becomes clear that they are better off in a landfill.”

Aluminum, tin and paper should be recycled.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/07/15/why_its_probably_better_for_the_planet_to_throw_plastic_in_the_trash.html

Link at maggiesfarm.

(China no longer takes plastic for recycling. Large piles of plastic in China contributed to ocean pollution. Landfills can be tapped for methane, produced as products rot in landfill heat.

(Not much will change, though, because recycling is a feel-good activity for most of the industrialized world. Oother parts of the planet have not yet become civilized and people there continue to throw trash wherever and whenever.)