The recycling issue is good, but it is starting at the wrong end.

Governments [ie people who govern - in contrast to the ex lawyers who are our UK politicians because they make more money that way] need to enforce WORLDWIDE GENERIC TECHNICAL STANDARDS to most manufactured items.

After 200 years of precision engineering, we cannot agree on the head of a screw, or the thread of a bolt. We have space exploration that failed because we cannot agree on metric or imperial or US units.

When this stupidity stops, we will not need to recycle a lot of items because we will RE-USE parts and REPAIR them. Junk then becomes a useful resource.