This is well put. I'd also add that people are relentlessly marketed to to consume more to support that economic growth. People from the 19th or early 20th century might well consider the amount of psychological pressure we get to buy things to be a relentless propaganda campaign.

I think there are some other points worth considering here. The "chasing arrows" logo was originally intended more for labeling material content than recyclability. And there is evidence that plastic/petchems industry has used this state of affairs to promote plastics as being much recyclable than they actually are.

Everything I've learned suggests that only plastics # 1-3 are "practicably recyclable" in that the material recovered from these has decent purity and can be used for a meaningful range of purposes. That's because plastics vary hugely in terms of their actual chemical composition and how they react to common recycling methods. In fact AFAICT really only cardboard and some metals recycle "usefully" at present. So if you are going put energy into recycling, aluminum cans and cardboard give the most ROI.

So there is merit to the argument that those arrows are, as they currently exist, misleading to consumers.

There's also merit to what you are saying in that tying the state of recycling facilities for a particular set of materials is inherently complicated.

IMHO the key question is how to get more materials to be actually and meaningfully recyclable, and how to set up waste collection so that more materials can be usefully recovered from existing waste streams.

I haven't read enough about this bill to figure out whether it's likely to help or hinder, but that's the benchmark that I'd apply.

There are considerably more than two sides to this issue...

Home users aren't going to move the needle. Corporate users need to switch and it's not going to be to Linux when the vast majority of business software is made for Windows.

Please look up what 3rd world means.

Data centers need to pay for their own energy increase, be closed cooling systems, and not allow withing 5 miles of a residential area, and residence can't be built within 5 miles of a data center.

A contagion tube that slower and vastly more inconvenient. Plus a bigger polluter.
People pushing for everyone to get on the bus have no clue about buses.

It's just a matter of time. You aren't going to ae a car that receives less then 1 percent of sales. For example.

OH no, did the EV boogie man make an EV model of a car you like? tell, is this EV boogie man in the room with you right now?
Electric mustang concept is fine. There implementation was poor.

wow. Did no take like for sexist douches to post.

" Standards made your mind more limber and aware. "
lol, no.

lol, no. You watch too many youtube vidoes.

lol, no. don't be daft. Manual transmission is an unneeded skill, not a hard skill.
Do you think in the 70s and 80s there wasn't traffic?

Incorrect, 70+% of crime is committed by people over 25. Nice try.

No. This has nothing to do with EVs. It's an unneeded task anymore. People buying stick these day only do it for the attention of having stick.
Manual transmission cars sales have declined every years since 1980. In 1980 it was only 35% of sales.

It's a more difficult thing that people do no need, so yes it's dying . duh.