This may or may not be true for your area. Often people make this assumption when they’ve been told this factoid (including me for many years!), but visit your local recycling center to find out what they do. Sometimes yes, recycling gets landfilled. Or burned. But some places do the work and source stuff out. It’s worth finding out what happens to your waste.
(My wife is big into recycling, composting, etc, and has had a number of conversations with our local recycling people and has toured the plant a couple of times. She’s taught me a lot, and shown that at least in my area and for specific materials, a lot of what I cynically assumed about recycling just isn’t true.)
When I was a garbage man (covid was a weird time) one stop was a business that made those benches, beach chairs, picnic tables etc. Every other week that dumpster was filled to the brim with leftover pieces and “sawdust”. We don’t have a recycling center in the area so guess where that all goes?
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