It’s a feel good operation.

Get acquainted with the EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) laws to come in the future. They actually are a good way to force packaging to be biodegradable or switch to a paper based product. Remember when you bought nails or screws in a small brown paper bag and had it weighed. Now these same items are sold in a plastic bubble pack with 10 screws.

I was doing research and discovered that even separating the plastic lines by the number in the triangle means nothing.
This was and is a scam that no one talks about.

“The petrochemical industry led us down this path, convincing us that single-use plastic was cleaner, easier, and modern. As for what to do with plastic waste and litter, corporate public relations offices told us in the 1970s that recycling would solve that problem. Today, only 6-9% of the plastic in the waste stream gets recycled.

The plastics industry puts those familiar “recycle” triangles on containers to make us feel better about using them. Even toothpaste tubes display a bright green recycle logo. Many such containers are theoretically recyclable, but no recycling program accepts them. The plastic bottles that do get recycled are generally not turned into new containers. They are shredded and used to make clothing, footwear, and furniture, very little of which gets recycled again. In the end, it all gets buried in landfills, incinerated, or shipped overseas to poor countries where it is burned, with disastrous health consequences, or dumped in the ocean.”