After acknowledging that recycling is a scam, you cannot introduce a statement like this without a lot of careful justification.
If everything previously in the article is true (which it is) it is not better to recycle plastic at home than to throw it away: it is approximately equivalent.
Your recycle bin ends up shipped somewhere halfway around the world, where most of goes into a landfill.
Firstly, there are too many plastics mixed together (and the article touches on that).
There is also the issue that even if you have waste that is made exactly of one kind of plastic, and it's the right one for some application, recycling works by chopping plastic into pieces. This chopping shortens the long-chain molecules that give the plastic some of its important qualities like impact strength. The resulting plastic is inferior to the original, even if pure and homogeneous.
If 85% of the plastic I deliver into my county's recycling program ends up in a landfill, I would consider that basically a sham.
If 15% of that plastic ends up in a landfill, that's not a sham (though there should be some openness about what is really going on).
I’d hate for this movement to push people to simply skip the recycling step.
The narrative that recycling plastics is never effective isn’t accurate and drives demand for more plastic manufacturing as stocks of recyclable plastics diminish.
Huh, wonder who started this rumor anyway?
A local landfill is dramatically better than shipping it on a giant freighter halfway around the world to be set on fire.
The best option seems to be to reject single use plastics as much as possible. Force companies to make changes if they want to make sales.
Knowing that this whole thing was a scam (which has been known for quite a while) should push governments to take action. Not only against a the plastics industry, but also to push companies to move way from single use plastics.