← Back to context Comment by shafyy 1 day ago Are you saying that recycling is a scam? 3 comments shafyy Reply coldtea 1 day ago Aside from a few select product categories, recycling IS a scam.E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...Recycling mostly means "sent to landfills in the third world":https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumpi...https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-g... jkestner 18 hours ago Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-... 8organicbits 1 day ago Many recycling programs don't actually recycle.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-indus...
coldtea 1 day ago Aside from a few select product categories, recycling IS a scam.E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...Recycling mostly means "sent to landfills in the third world":https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumpi...https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-g...
jkestner 18 hours ago Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
8organicbits 1 day ago Many recycling programs don't actually recycle.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-indus...
Aside from a few select product categories, recycling IS a scam.
E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...
Recycling mostly means "sent to landfills in the third world":
https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumpi...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-g...
Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Many recycling programs don't actually recycle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-indus...