Is the "reign of recycling" really over?
TerraCycle Include USA
The benefits vary, but after having reviewed dozens of independent life cycle analyses (including independent LCAs for TerraCycle products made from packaging waste), I have consistently found – as have various other institutions around the world – that there are meaningful environmental benefits to recycling most materials (it is irrelevant on this point whether or not these items are economically profitable to physically process) when measuring against the environmental impacts of producing new products from virgin materials.