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I think I read that no matter who you are and what you've done, only about 10% - 15% of all plastic you've recycled actually gets recycled. The vast majority ends up on barges being shipped overseas or to landfills.
This isn't to say stop recycling, if it compiles plastic into places instead of just distributing across the globe, then maybe later when people get off their ass and realize we're in trouble, they might make some kind of bacterial-world-ending-zombie-plague type solution for breaking down plastic waste, at least the plasti-zombie-plague will be isolated to particular regions and countries.