Ken LaCorte

Nobody should.

So a lot of, look, a lot of things you can recycle, great.

There's a minority of plastics that you can.

Things like glass, it's not a crazy expensive thing.

Cans, certainly.

Plastic is such a bad example of recycling.

When people call it a scam, they're not wrong.

It popped up when literally the plastics industry came up with a front organization that was an environmental organization telling you to recycle this.

And they built that into the American consciousness.

And, you know, another part of it is the recycling arrows.

That's not a copyrighted symbol.

So that can mean anything people want it to mean.

And when you see that, it isn't saying that this is recyclable.

There's a number under that.

And it's like from one to seven or eight.

And that number says, can it be recycled or can it not be?

And most places can only recycle a one or a two with plastics.

Most of the types of plastics you just can't recycle.

And they have to also sort them carefully because if you get in the minority of plastics you can recycle and mix that in with the other stuff, it's like, you know, make it a cake with the wrong ingredients and it screws everything up.

So they need to literally have humans and machines going in there separating all this stuff.