It’s here: the Silly Season, Cucumber Time, whatever you want to call that part of year when the mercury soars and the crazy seems to ramp up to a laughable lunatic frenzy as media outlets try to entice eyeballs and clicks with lurid tales that have little or no news value. Plus, that guy with the ridiculous hair is no longer in charge. Which one are we talking about? Well, there are a few to choose from.

In keeping with the Silly Season, here’s some summer reading, a commentary printed in late May by the US magazine, The Atlantic. The title seems to dovetail with the predominant nuttiness of summer: Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work.

Wait a sec. That can’t be right. Clearly this is a baseless attack from a former regional director for the US Environmental Protection Agency writing with a chemical engineer who is also the founder of the Last Beach Cleanup. They obviously have an agenda. One used to work for an agency, so yeah, an agenda.

“Plastic recycling is simply not economical,” they write. Balderdash! Poppycock! Madness!

Plastics recycling doesn’t work and will never work. Hah, how silly, right?

Right?