[nootropicat]

The obsession with plastic recycling is due to human irrationality. We are driven to conserve material resources over hard to imagine energy because matter is tangible. This is a fallacy. Plastic is made from oil, and recycling plastic requires more energy than making new one, therefore recycling plastic is the wasteful route. Just burn it all, problem solved.

Recycling not being economical betrays this reality. It's simply insanity to recycle, unfortunately in most places it's legally forced.