@anne_twain @yogthos Most plastics cannot in fact be recycled more than a handful of times - even if all the effort is taken to sort it into all the different kinds of plastic, it becomes uselessly weak after just a few cycles (just like how paper can only be recycled a few times before the fibres become to short to give enough strength - but you can just use paper as mulch or burn it after all).

Recycling is simply a ploy to sell more plastic - plastic should be sparingly used when other materials won't do, in things that are designed to last - it should not be wastefully used on utter garbage like a yogurt label, considering that there are many ways to label that doesn't release microplastics.

As for plastic that has reached the end of its life - it should be burned in furnace hot enough to completely combust it - anything else just causes microplastics to go everywhere.