To make matters worse, recycling is a scam (with a small handful of exceptions).

Varies widely across country and the type of thing you're recycling. People are so extreme with recycling, it's either "recycle everything!" or "it's a scam, just chuck it all in the garbage"

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vasco 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It varies very widely indeed. In some countries it isn't a scam because it gets burned like Denmark but other than that majority of recycling just means shipping it to a landfill in a poor country that they promise to recycle.

	▲	chpatrick 24 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In Hungary it gets sorted out locally. We also recently implemented a bottle return system that (although it's annoying) produces clean stacks of PET, aluminium and glass, all of which are recyclable.
	▲	eru an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Well, it depends a lot on material. Metals, especially aluminum, get widely recycled because it actually makes financial sense. Plastics, well, you are probably better off burning them for electricity.
	▲	nandomrumber an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> because it gets burned I wouldn’t really call that recycling.

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stmL 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you elaborate on that?

Edit: I'm actually curious l, i don't know how recycling supposed to work for electronics and how it can be a scam.

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mngnt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This youtube video explains why plastic recycling exists, how it's mostly ineffective and why is it a scam created to normalize one-use plastic. This basically applies to electronics and others. "Why would I reuse or reduce, I can buy, consume an recycle".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g

	▲	pbhjpbhj 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Tax CEOs of vape companies the percentage of their vapes that their company doesn't physically retrieve from customers to be recycled ...