This article suggests recycling is a mixture of economically ineffective and actively environmentally harmful but I wasn’t left with a clear understanding of wh

This article suggests recycling is a mixture of economically ineffective and actively environmentally harmful but I wasn’t left with a clear understanding of which types of recycling are which. Certainly aluminum recycling seems to make both economic and environmental sense. But for glass, paper, and plastic, is there a point where I would be doing the environment a service by throwing it in the landfill box instead of the recycling box?