25 years ago when my oldest son was in grade school, I caught him looking through the various "recycling" bags under the kitchen sink. "What are you doing?" I asked. "My teacher asked us to find out if our parents are recycling and report back." "What?" I took all the bags, plastic, glass, paper and put them all in one bag and handed it to him to take out to the garbage can, and told him, "Now go tell your teacher that I do NOT recycle, what is she going to do about it?"
Never recycled another piece of garbage again, happy about it too.
EnviroNazis stop at nothing, do they? And they LOVE to exploit and indoctrinate our kids.
We, too, had a LOT of discussions over the dinner table about what our boys were being ‘taught’ in school.
It was maddening.