In general, anything that is billed as a low-effort way to accomplish X that anybody can do is probably not very useful. You see this in health scams, financial

In general, anything that is billed as a low-effort way to accomplish X that anybody can do is probably not very useful. You see this in health scams, financial scams, etc. It is likely the same way with the environment. We are now finding out that encouraging plastic recycling was probably environmentally worse that if people had been allowed to just throw it all away in a landfill. Other well-intentioned efforts that resulted in bad outcomes: Discouraging plastic bags -> Increased CO2 for cloth/paper bags Banning DDT -> likely millions of deaths from malaria over the years Opposition to nuclear -> more dependence on carbon heavy sources of energy (see Germany)