More Recycling Lies: What the Plastics Industry Isn't Telling You About "Chemical Recycling" 

For decades, the plastic industry has promised that recycling would solve the problem of plastic waste, yet the plastic crisis continues to grow. The dismal U.S. plastic recycling rate continues to hover around 5 percent. Globally, plastic use is projected to almost triple by 2060, relative to a 2019 baseline.

NRDC’s new issue brief “More Recycling Lies” confirms and expands on our previous findings: So-called “chemical recycling” is mostly plastic incineration.