The con that is recycling as a way of fighting "Global Warming"

I did chuckle when I read today that Stephen Jones, a "key government advisor on waste management, has said that

"It might be that the global warming impact of putting material through an incinerator five miles down the road is actually less than recycling it 3,000 miles away"

When will people realise that the mania for recycling and indeed much of the environmentalist agenda is not about saving the planet; our puny efforts will have little affect anyway. It is all about control and the upcoming imposition of more transgression taxes.