Recyling was mainstreamed to inculcate the population into environmental malthusianism ahead of the #GreatReset. Garbage isn't actually recycled.

📰 - https://web.archive.org/web/20090518061745/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-garbage.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLkfpjJoNkA