You were told to rinse. Sort. Recycle.
You were told that would be enough.

But it was never about recycling. It was about reassurance.

In this second file, we dig into the greatest green lie of the last century — the myth that plastic can be recycled efficiently, safely, and at scale.

We expose how the plastic industry knew, for decades, that recycling wouldn't solve the crisis — and how they sold it to the public anyway, to keep profits high and guilt off their hands.

They didn’t fix the system.
They fixed the story.

Welcome to File 002: The Recycling Myth.

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