[vlz]

> literally worse for the environment to try and recycle it

For example? What products do you mean?

[lproven]

Basically anything plastic.

Plastics recycling is a scam.

Glass recycles well, if colours are kept separated.

Aluminium and iron and most pure or semi-pure metals too.

Far better to wash and reuse, of course, as was still the rule when I was a child, and in some of Scandinavia even 25Y ago.