why can’t we encourage recycling?

Recycling is an excellent way of handling used plastic. Not always. More than 93% of plastics are not recycled. If recycling happened, after recycling couple of times the plastic loses its properties and becomes unsuitable for recycling. Most of the manufacturers use filler (a cheap powder material) along with plastics for reducing the cost. It makes recycling of more difficult and products recycled with fillers will have life.