This—it’s a tactic to alleviate guilt from the consumer for buying single use plastics. The best education is to let people know that the vast majority of plastic will not be recycled.

My motivation to recycle and sort took a big dip when I found out that where I previously lived the plastics bin gets carted off to incineration, all of it, no recycling in place because apparently that wasn't economically viable.

That should really be said of "biodegradable" or any -degradable.

Plastics are pretty much an optimum in terms of energy required to produce vs. durability, so deliberately decreasing the latter is the real waste and the result of an agenda of planned obsolescence.

Plastic recycling certainly is. Not sure about other materials. Plastic recycling is a scam from the petrochemical industry though and doesn't work.