When incinerated in a waste incineration plant, they release climate-warming CO₂ into the atmosphere. Recycling is therefore the better option: Used plastics provide the raw materials for new ones, closing the loop.

Bullshit. Studies have shown that recycled plastics generate much more microplastics pollution than original stock.

There’s more to plastics than just recycling and CO2 emissions.

This new material needs equivalent microplastics testing before any sort of conclusion can be made about it being better.