This is quoted from The Guardian, US Edition, which is doing a series on recycling in America...
"Plastic degrades in quality when it is recycled, and while it’s tough to know how many times a piece of plastic will get recycled before becoming unusable, experts estimate it may only be once or twice. After that, it is landfilled, incinerated, or ends up in the environment.
"There’s only one real solution, these experts say: make and consume less plastic."
I reference this article:
How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste | Environment | The Guardian
There was once a poster a year or two ago who, defending her daily consumption of bottled water, said it was okay for her to do that because she recycled every bottle. Those bottles will all end up in the landfill eventually.
We must come up with solutions.