Recycling itself isn’t mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of “recycled” plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it’s just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product “made of 100% recycled material” even though it’s still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.

Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it’s such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn’t expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.