AIBU to not have known how little of what we recycle is actually reused?

[Skierrdery]

I certainly didn't know. I thought once I recycled, all was good.
The actual figure is astonishing and has now made me really look at using less plastic. But there appears to be very little in terms of options to actually reuse or reduce your plastic use.
Drinks bottles would be a massive one for me. But packaging on products you use - what can you do?

Years and years ago, all drinks bottles were glass and you got a penny back when you brought them back to the shop.
We need to be introducing something like that I think?

Btw, I don't much believe in climate change as being man made - plastic certainly is.

What do you do practically yourself?

I did not know this either til very recently! Like yourself I thought everything I put in the recycled bin got recycled

I remember when recycling bins started appearing everywhere and watching a documentary approx a year later about how the recycling plants just couldn't cope.

That was about 10 years ago

A mere 9% of what you recycle actually gets recycled.

I have to ask myself what is the point of it? It just gives you a complacency around using recyclable material.