As far as profits go, the numbers just barely favor recycling. Wong said he might spend $150 to buy a ton of plastic scrap from a US recycler. Once it is shipped abroad, sold to a processor, turned into pellets and then again shipped to a manufacturer, the seller might ask as much as $800 per ton. Yet the cost of similar virgin plastic, which is often higher quality, is just $900 to $1,000 a ton.
"We need to TAX virgin plastic!!!" [big applause from the Demagogic Party's lemmings]
“Virgin Plastic” = “BIG OIL”
That is REALLY where the Left is going with this.