Recycled plastic also gets brittle as you recycle it. Nothing in this Plastic story is anywhere near as 'circular' as it is with glass or metal recycling.
A bottle from 100% recycled PET pettles has a deep dark grey colour because they cannot perfectly control plastic colouring in recycling. So those pristine transparent bottles are 100% guaranteed not from recycled pettles.
It really is a con through and through. We need to ban single-use plastic, everything else is noise.
The major blocker at the moment is the lack of recycled PET to use.
So all the people undermining the work by telling folk not to bother recycling their bottles isn't really helpful, unless you are trying to support the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.packaging-360.com/en/current-topics/coca-cola-in...
There is no 'work', plastic is cheap for the packager, expensive for our environment. The industry has setup a marketing compaign to divert attention away from all the externalized environmental costs of plastic.[0]
You are right that I want to undermine this effort because what I want is a full ban on single use-plastic outside medical/laboratory applications.
I highly recommend this PBS docu on the PR aspects around Plastic:
[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/