We've been pointing this out for the twenty years this blog has been running

The big recyclable plastic lie EXPOSED: Major plastic producers have known for decades that recycling products was neither economically or practically possible

The link is to a Daily Mail article that, of course, is filled with denunciations of “Big Oil” and calls for “punishment”, but plastic recycling has been a shuck since it began, and only fools, children, and reporters believed in it.

Which won’t stop Lititia James and her smarmy counterparts in other states — Chris Murphy comes immediately to mind — from suing for billions, because this is about money, not the environment; it always is.