Listening to the Plasteurope.com price team across the hall can be a repetitive affair most days. Prices up, prices down, supply good, demand abysmal, force majeure here, shutdown there, and so on. But sometimes philosophical discussions fill the corridor and spark memories of the Muppet show – especially the two misanthropic grumblers perched upon their velvet sofa on the balcony.

Recently, a discussion flared up around a question ripped from the headlines: Is mechanical plastics recycling better or worse than other methods if shredding produces microplastics that even the best filters cannot capture?

The complete reproduction of the conflict of opinions would fill volumes, so here it is in a nutshell: Whatever you do, it’s still wrong.