I separate plastic so it can be either burnt together with my other trash, or shipped to Turkey where god knows what environmental crime is committed with it. An extremely small percentage might be melted into some low grade park bench. Absolutely zero plastic will be turned into high quality plastic pellets for industrial as a substitute for new plastic. It does not make me feel good, but not doing it makes me feel worse.

I just voted today for real change. Voting matters, plastic "recycling" doesn't*

* if you live in a place where you have meaningfully different options, not just two flavors of the same