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CAUGHT: Fines For Not “Separating Trash” Just a Billion Dollar Recycle Scam?
How much time do you spend separating your trash?
What if you were just wasting your time?
A lot of people have heard about this but still more need to know.
Have you ever been fined for not separating your trash?
For those who have, I think it’s time you got your money back.
This is Tiburon, California
Here residents can be fined up to $500 for not separating their trash when disposing of it
As you can see when the city comes to pick it up, it’s all thrown in one bin and taken to the landfill
Amazing pic.twitter.com/O8Jk31i5GE
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 12, 2025
Countless comments like these:
This recycling scam wouldn’t be for profit, would it?
Recycling remains a massive scam.
(Link in comments.) pic.twitter.com/M0312UdgvJ
— Jeff Sechelski (@JeffSechelski) June 12, 2025
RedState reports:
Companies today claim they are “designing for the environment.” What they often mean is: they’re doing what the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) tells them to do.
APR is not an environmental nonprofit, nor is it a scientific body. It is a trade association. Its purpose isn’t planetary stewardship or public benefit—it’s to protect the business model of mechanical recyclers. Across the country, retailers and consumer brands have allowed APR to shape packaging policy, effectively outsourcing key sustainability decisions to an organization with no accountability to the public.
This didn’t happen by accident. It was a calculated public affairs coup.
By presenting itself as a neutral authority on recycling, APR has become the de facto gatekeeper of “recyclable” packaging. Its “Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability” guidelines are treated by many brands as gospel. The result is a system in which APR’s preferences—many of which conveniently raise costs, entrench incumbents, and discourage alternatives—are adopted as moral imperatives rather than contested ideas.
The foundation of APR’s influence—that America faces a plastic waste crisis—is a myth. The data simply doesn’t support that narrative. According to industry analyses referencing data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States has more than 60 years of landfill capacity remaining. Though there is variation between states, most have ample infrastructure to handle projected volumes. Plastics, meanwhile, account for only about 18 percent of waste by weight, according to the EPA. Moreover, the United States generates less plastic per capita than many developing nations, where the real pollution crises lie.
And when it comes to ocean plastics—the most emotionally charged part of the narrative—the United States plays a minor role. Studies estimate that more than 86 percent of ocean-bound plastic waste comes from Asia. The United States contributes about three percent of total waste, ranking 20th overall. China and India alone are responsible for nearly one-third of all mismanaged plastic waste globally.
(CHINA and INDIA seem to be the main culprits in waste. Why don’t we ever hear the Left mention this?)
The so-called crisis, in other words, is not being driven by Americans’ plastic use. And American brands aren’t responding to consumer demand or hard science. Rather, they are responding to activist campaigns, ESG consultants, and regulatory pressure. Very few are willing to challenge the flawed premise that we’re in the midst of an environmental emergency.
APR has pulled off something remarkable but all too common in today’s age. It has cloaked its trade priorities in the language of sustainability, allowing its design standards to spread across entire industries without serious scrutiny.
Where does your recyclables go? One lady used an Apple AirTag to do some investigating:
This lady exposed the dark truth about recycling.
She dropped an AirTag in her recycling bin to find out where it really went.
Her experiment uncovered a sinister 250-ton secret…
Here’s the full story: pic.twitter.com/HzNf05jlBJ
— Md Riyazuddin (@riyazmd774) May 9, 2025
Putting trackers to good use!
Apple Airtags.
Deason’s experiment was elegantly simple:
She placed AirTags in recycling bags, dropped them off, and watched.
As the digital breadcrumbs appeared on her screen, a disturbing pattern emerged.
Nine out of twelve tags led to the same place: pic.twitter.com/UaDxSqMETV
— Md Riyazuddin (@riyazmd774) May 9, 2025
Turns out, its not recycled at all.
Since late 2022, Houston has collected 250 tons of plastic for recycling.
Amount actually recycled? A big, round zero.
All that plastic was just… sitting there.
The city’s explanation? pic.twitter.com/MB9V6r2y7r
— Md Riyazuddin (@riyazmd774) May 9, 2025
Maybe a non-profit recycling company will rise up and do what they claim?
WATCH: CEO of Recycling Non-Profit Confronted with Photos Exposing His Operation as a Total SCAM@HarrisonHSmith pic.twitter.com/mI2cQW7Ai1
— INFOWARS (@infowars) April 29, 2025
Seems to be a widespread scam.
Even in Canada:
Is recycling a scam?
We witnessed the City of Toronto dump recycling and garbage into the same pile. We saw this happen at multiple receptacles.
Full video: https://t.co/kCPoXwVDxN pic.twitter.com/3lRkI8IFoP
— Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) March 6, 2024
Let’s look closer.
The recycling scam in Canada Canada is broken and this scam is ridiculous pic.twitter.com/ffxVz0bq7j
— Antonio Tweets (@AntonioTweets2) February 25, 2025
And part 2:
Recycling Scam in Canada PT:2A billion dollars pic.twitter.com/HxcWD5JoeF
— Antonio Tweets (@AntonioTweets2) February 25, 2025
This actually is not the first time we’ve reported on this.
We brought you this report back in February:
Sorry But Recycling Is Worthless — Here’s The Truth About Where Your “Recycling” Goes
Sorry But Recycling Is Worthless -- Here's The Truth About Where Your "Recycling" Goes
Looks like another "conspiracy theory" just came true again!
To quote Yogi Berra it's like "deja vu all over again" these days with conspiracy after conspiracy being proven 100% true.
The latest is the Myth of Recycling, or as John Stossel put it: "the Green Religion" otherwise known as Gaia Worship.
I've been telling people for years that Recycling is a scam.
Recycling is "garbage", no pun intended....
I have no doubt some people mean well by it, but it simply doesn't work!
Most of it does not end up actually getting recycled and the time, energy and "carbon dioxide" that we put into Recycling is far greater and does far more harm than if we'd simply throw the stuff in the garbage.
People have laughed at me when I've told them that, but now it's proven 100% accurate.
A big thanks to John Stossel for his excellent video and for Elon Musk who amplified the message on X this morning:
Recycling is pointless https://t.co/vQZrnsHrVr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 13, 2024
And in case you need a backup, here is the same video on YouTube.
I will also post the full transcript of the video below in case that's easier for you.
Please enjoy -- and then share this to wake some more people up to the scam of the Green Religion:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Do you recycle?
For sure, absolutely.
Absolutely everything I possibly can.
For decades we’ve been told
Recycle America.
Don’t just throw it all away.
Because recycling will save the planet.
You’re saving the Earth!
And that’s what people believe.
We have to do it for the kids,
for the next generation.
This will all be back on the shelf
as a cracker or cereal box in about 4-5 weeks.
This recycling company is run by Lynn Hoffman.
If we’re not using recycled paper and cardboard
we’re cutting down more trees.
Recycling paper and cardboard does save trees.
Recycling aluminum does save energy.
But most of the other stuff is impractical to recycle.
That’s right.
This is material that came into the recycling facility
from people’s recycling carts,
but is going to leave as trash.
Huge amounts of what people send to her
recycling plant will never be recycled.
The worst is plastic which for years
has been marked with a recycling symbol.
We see stuff like this all the time,
recycling arrows on it, “please recycle.”
It’s not recyclable.
Even worse, plastic bags
clog the recycling machines.
We have to climb in for a couple hours every day
and cut them out with the box cutter.
But people think most of our plastic is recycled.
Yeah, I do think so.
Is it not, you gonna tell me it’s not?
That’s the trick?
The reality is that
The amount of plastic actually recycled is around 5%.
Wow. I figured there was something coming,
but I’m, I’m, I’m shocked right now.
I didn’t know.
It’s sad.
[Cans tossed]
All my life, I’ve heard about how important it is to recycle.
It’s not.
Science writer John Tierney debunked
recycling claims years ago.
His New York Times Magazine story
“Recycling is Garbage”
set a record for Times hate mail.
And yet
What you said is still true?
It’s even more true today.
In fact, the economics have just gotten worse.
Now my city would save more than
$300 million a year if it just stopped recycling.
Recycling is an industry that is using
increasingly expensive labor
to produce materials that are worth less and less.
Because it’s not worth recycling here,
much is shipped overseas to countries like Malaysia
where it’s just piled up.
A vast field of plastic. Two stories high.
Some of it from America.
See if we can look on the back here.
Marysville, Ohio.
Look! Walmart bag.
That pollutes even more
and what they don’t burn,
they sometimes dump in the ocean.
One garbage truck of plastic
is dumped in the sea every minute.
Barely any of that plastic comes from American shores so
[Dolphin noise]
If you care about saving Flipper,
you should put your plastic bottle in the garbage.
[Truck running over garbage]
The garbage?
But then it would go to a landfill.
And aren’t we running out of space for landfills?
I’m sure we are.
People believe that because
for years the media said
We’ve about run out of places
to throwaway our throwaways.
They think that because years ago
there was so much publicity about this barge.
A symbol of this country’s growing problems with trash.
The barge travelled thousands of miles
looking for a place to dump its load.
But it wasn’t because there wasn’t room.
States turned this barge away because
alarmist media scared people
about what it contained.
There could be infection waste.
Dripping brown ooze of possibly infectious material.
We don’t know what kind of tropical vermin is in that garbage.
But the EPA later found it was normal garbage.
And landfills had plenty of room for that.
Today they have more space than we’ll ever need.
If you think of the United States as a football field,
all the garbage that we will generate
in the next 1000 years
would fit inside a tiny fraction of the one inch line.
Really!?
Oh, that’s surprising.
On top of that,
today’s landfills are not the polluters they once were.
Some sensible regulations make sure they don’t pollute.
Eventually landfills are turned into
ski hills, parks and golf courses.
[Clink]
Putting garbage here is much cheaper than recycling,
so why do towns keep pushing recycling?
They do it because people demand it.
It’s a sacrament of the green religion.
I rinse my cans,
I take my labels off if there’s
plastic on, that’s something that’s paper.
I take the plastic piece off of it.
That’s fine if they wanna do it voluntarily,
but we shouldn’t mandate that.
It’s not my religion.
I don’t wanna perform that sacrament.
I don’t want to either.
It’s time consuming and complicated.
My city orders us,
follow all these rules.
And that’s one of the reasons recycling fails
is because it’s so complicated
people never learn the rules
and why should they be spending their free time
learning these rules?
Worse, lots of what we do is pointless.
If you rinse a plastic bottle in hot water,
the net result is more carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere than if you threw it in the garbage.
Even Greenpeace said,
most plastic simply cannot be recycled.
So what’s Greenpeace’s solution?
Let’s stop producing it.
You’re saying, don’t use plastic at all.
Ban plastic.
I think that’s where we’re headed.
No more plastic?
But plastic often creates less emissions than alternatives.
Environmental groups rarely mention that,
or how they misled us about recycling for years.
It’s appalling that after telling people
for three decades to recycle,
they don’t even apologize
for all the time and money that they wasted,
instead they have an even worse proposal
that will make life even worse and even more expensive.
One time-consuming dream of theirs is a
“circular economy” where everything is reused.
If you’re running out a laundry detergent,
you could take your jug back to the store
and fill it up instead of buying another one.
That’s really the goal.
But people don’t want to,
you’re, you’re, you’re asking them to do things
they don’t wanna do.
People also don’t want insurance rates going up
because of catastrophic weather.
Catastrophic weather increases
because someone doesn’t recycle?
Sure because of climate change.
Give me a break,
recycling is no climate savior.
[Truck sound]
When Los Angeles mandated recycling
they added 400 polluting garbage trucks.
But environmentalists still demand
we pick through our trash,
switch from plastic to paper bags that rip.
California even banned
small plastic shampoo bottles.
These little things here.
Why do you want to make life more difficult for travelers?
Some of these rules are just so
arbitrary and silly.
It’s simply a way, I think,
for greens and for some politicians
to pretend that they’re saving the planet.
To feel good.
It feels like they’re doing something.
Right. And I think they get a charge
out of telling people what to do.
[Truck running over garbage]
[Swoosh]
I will never tell you what to do.
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