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Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a... by farmerstan on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:48AM (#28469637)
I’ve been putting everything with a recycling symbol in the recycling waste. I find it reprehensible that it’s not recyclable.
Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a... by lotsofpulp on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:08AM (#28469855)
Good chance it did not matter because recycling does not happen many times.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

I am under the impression it mostly used to mean plausible deniability for consumers whose consumption could be exported back to China for “recycling”.