Ironically, I'm fairly sure that it is in fact big oil propaganda claiming that plastic recycling is big oil propaganda.

You could for example look at China, a country that has embraced nuclear and solar and wind and batteries and EVs because they don't have good access to oil and don't have much government influence from that group.

Do they recycle more or less of their plastic waste than the USA?

Google suggests in 2023 it's 30% in China vs 12% in the USA.

It's a confusing topic, as some anti-plastic campaigners seize on this intentional failure of the US to recycle more and better to try to push total plastic bans.

Which are good policy for specific items, and again we see these being done in China too, as a complement to recycling, not a replacement.

China though seems to care even less about toxicity than the rest of the world. Also by default I would be wary of number fudging from there.