@inthehandsPaul Cantrell 
@CelloMomOnCars My concern is that city governments send it directly to the landfill. My wife and I have and will continue to make concerted efforts not to use plastic
@Robo105Robin Barton But that is something that one can make a ruckus about, and which has nothing to do with the *concept* of recycling of stuff, regardless of material.
Yes: to avoid is probably better than to reuse; to reuse beats recycling; to recycle beats burning; and even burning (in a controlled process) beats just tossing in the environment. Avoiding plastics completely in today's western world is very difficult, but we can still make a choice about how to handle it after first use.
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