[Pecos]

This is incidental to the fact that recycling paper does far more harm to the environment than putting it into a landfill and growing more trees. Recycling paper (a) uses some seriously nasty bleaching chemicals, and (b) requires more fuel to power the recycling plants and all of the trucks used to transport everything than is used to just make more paper. And growing more trees is a good thing, right?

It's kind of like when you get a song stuck in your head and can't get rid of it. In this case, the enviro wackos keep chanting "Recycle. Recycle. Recycle." without actually thinking about what they're jazzed up about.

[Trump.Deplorable]

That is so true, a majority of people have no idea the negative impact that recycling has on the environment from transportation, to the process, to the release of fumes etc. And most of it, like plastics, end up in the landfill anyways.

The only material that has a positive impact on the environment if recycled is metal, especially aluminum cans. Everything else is better to be tossed in the trash.

[jurroppi1]

Pretty much all paper (well not all of it, but most of it) does indeed go into landfills and is not recycled. It used to be cheap to ship paper to china, etc for recycling, but it has for quite some time been cost-prohibitive to recycle paper for the vast majority of waste management companies/municipalities. It used to be pennies per ton, not it is so it just gets sent to the landfill.

Apparently (as of roughly mid-2018) China is not accepting any garbage/recycling imports.

Any waste management that sends material to be recycled domestically it is probably happening to some extent, but it is wasteful to recycle paper.