News sites have long pushed for regulations that would require companies like Google and Facebook to pay for excerpting and linking news articles, so part of me wonders if this is an intentional policy to avoid being held liable for paying, in turn, their sources of information should those regulations ever come to pass. Deeply funny to me, honestly.

Thank you, this is enormously helpful for having some context to add to discussions.

I've talked to a lot of people in recent years who have seen these headlines and concluded that all recycling, including aluminum and paper products, is actually a lie. We really need more clarity around the recycling situation so people stop drawing their only conclusions from random headlines.

To be fair, the article might have been written before that URL was up, and/or the writer received the material in a different way.