The Big Plastic Count

I'm humming and hahing about the plastic count. I'm constantly annoyed at the supermarket assertions they 'recycle' the soft plastic waste collected, when I'm sure they send it elsewhere for either export or incineration. My only consolation is that it is probably removed from landfill.
We are promised soft plastic and food waste collections in the future, probably 2027 although the government have decreed councils should all have food waste collections, wiltshie has somehow wriggled out of it. It always amazes me they refuse to take windfall apples in the green waste, classing them as food waste. If I didn't have a compost, I'm not sure all my windfalls would go in a tiny food bin.