I thought the article would be more about how (warning speculation:) recycled plastic materials leech way more microplastics into the environment (compared to burning them), how people often use multiple products from recycled plastic (bags, clothes) because the recycled ones are worse and don't last as long or how we spend a lot of our CO2e budget on recycling plastics when we should be more worried about that.

This is just an article about how dumb people are. Boring