16th March 2024, 3:45 PM
It appears they knew that recycling plastic consumes more resources than it saves when they claimed the opposite. "Reduce" is still the most effective means of, well, reducing waste. "Recycling" now appears to be little more than a marketing tool to avoid being more heavily regulated.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)