Yeah, my question is about whether those large recyclers are private enterprises or if they're state funded programs.

They are not private entities, they are people who set up a place as a deposit and accumulate plastic, for example, I am dedicated to this and I bring you a certain amount of plastic and you give me an amount of fiat money, in this case soles, they pay for the plastic at a certain price and they accumulate it and I imagine that they sell it to the large recyclers.

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'Recycling' Makes Plastic Pollution Worse | The Libertarian Institute

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The article describes how a very large percentage of plastics end up being incinerated rather than recycled. That's quite a bit worse than burying them in a landfill.

I'd be curious to know who's paying people for collecting those materials. If it's private recycling centers who then sell to private manufacturers, then there's a good chance that recycling activity is worthwhile.

It's not that recycling, per se, is bad. The issue is that recycling, de facto, is often worse.