Can plastic bags be recycled

Can plastic bags be recycled? Several deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have put forward suggestions on restricting plastic bags, such as charging large users of plastic bags appropriately, tightening restrictions on plastic shopping bags, and legislating on the sorting of urban garbage. The suggestion of several representatives can not be said bad, look at those plastic bags are thrown away everywhere, make people look really uncomfortable, "plastic limit" is very necessary. But the ban has been in place for many years. What has been the effect? Plastic bags are still invincible. In fact, the "ban on plastic bags" is in an awkward situation like the smoking ban. Even the food hygiene and safety issues have not been properly handled, and the counterfeit and shoddy products have not been properly controlled. What is the "ban on plastic bags"? I read in Reference News recently that a new study by the UK Environment Agency found that those thin plastic bags have a smaller carbon footprint than cotton and single-use paper bags. Use a cotton bag more than 131 times before its carbon footprint is as low as that of an ordinary plastic bag. This means that "plastic limit" is not necessarily a better green idea. I think, maybe we can solve the problem of plastic bags from a different Angle, can we consider recycling plastic bags? Even if half of the country's plastic bags can be recycled, it is probably equivalent to the resources of several mines, and recycling plastic bags is not difficult. This may lead us to a greener life faster than a ban on plastic bags.