Burn stuff in big incinerators. Don’t let them scare you.
It was always known. The payola in plastics is what kept the game going.
The recycling folks knew. Governments knew.
Everyone except fuzzy headed leftist environmental studies majors knew it was a farce.... for years.
We never recycled and just tossed everything into the bin. Occasionally someone would confront me and I would tell them that everything except cardboard and metal was going to the same trash to energy burner.
They would sputter and say I was not telling the truth. The trash guys would tell them I was right and Eventually a little bell would ding and another leftist would get his trip to reality.