Consider This:
Plastic and SBR rubber (tires) come from oil. In the early days of oil refining, these materials used to be wasted and were released as environmental pollutants. Because of good business and not environmental concern, these pollutants were converted into useful materials. Can business again refine more pollutants into useful materials?

As many of us drive our cars and trucks or consume something that was delivered by an oil consuming vehicle, we create a demand for oil. Every time oil is refined, it yields a percentage of plastic and rubber resins. Since there is no practical end to our oil consumption, there will be no end to plastic and rubber production. What can these materials replace that we are currently loosing and cannot replace?

We recycle plastic not because there is a shortage of it or that we might decrease our dependency on oil but to keep it out of landfills and from being burned. Plastic in landfills may not pollute the water but burning plastic certainly does pollute the air. What other reasons do we have to keep plastic and other resins out of landfills?