It's ironic that the local recycling programs use huge bins made of plastic to put your plastics in for weekly collection . They still offer paper or plastic at the local grocery but often don't have paper bags or try to charge you a fee to purchase one of those clothe bags. In general we as consumers really do throw away so much garbage in the name of packaging and branding-labels. Someone needs to invent basic 'melters' or compactors purchased for the home, cube your own pure plastics and turn in for exchange with financial incentive. It's like can and aluminum recycling when we were kids. It was so massive and we'd always take an hour or two to go 'hunting cans' and run to the store to collect a few bucks. Schools actually organized events and drop offs. We even had plastic drop offs and would cut up the binders that held 6 packs together. Kids are to busy on their tablets and phones now to go develop an early understanding of turning everyday trash into profits. Little shats don't even catch lizards or put baseball cards in their spokes anymore .