It is very difficult to recycle plastic because there are many different types: stretch films, flexible bottles, rigid plastics ... each type has very different chemical characteristics.
We can collect everything and burn the waste to make thermal or electrical energy, this is what https://www.tessomotechnologies.com/ offers for example. Plastic is made from petroleum, is made up mostly of carbon atoms, and it burns with heat.
Better to burn plastic than to throw it in the wild! but we emit CO2 !!!
Another solution is to melt the plastics to make a paste that will be used with 3D printers. This is what https://www.plasticfactory.be/ does. A wide range of objects can be created by recycling plastic, including prostheses for people with disabilities
https://www.suedpack.com/ recycles plastics into new plastic packaging.
There are dozens of fantastic projects all over the world!
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