Why are people still recycling?

When we recycle products, we feel really good about ourselves because we are improving our world. But, this feel good attitude is based on misinformation. From around the second grade we are informed of all the great benefits of recycling our waste materials. So, let us go down the list:
Saves Energy and Money!
It increases the energy and money used in transport, sorting, storing, and cleaning a recycled product to get it back to a usable state. It takes less energy and money to make a new plastic bottle. The only exception is aluminum: it is still cheaper to recycle aluminum than to mine boxite.
We Save Trees and Improve the Environment!
Trees are a renewable resource. Always has and always will be. We have three times more trees now than we did in 1920 and recycling paper is actually bad for the environment because it is a manufacturing process. Starts with a truck picking it up, takes it to a recycling center that is using energy and spewing exhaust, put on another truck to take to a paper mill where it is deinked and bleached, then put into another machine spewing even more exhaust that turns it back into paper. The only way to recycle a newspaper is to read the same one over and over. IF you want more trees—waste more paper.
We Give People Great Jobs in the Recycling Industry!
Working conditions are terrible and the process itself is not doing any good to anyone or anything. Anywhere. Period.
Saves Landfill Space!
Dr J Winston Porter of the EPA wrote a study in Feb 1989 titled “The Solid Waste Dilemma: An Agenda for Action,” in which he made up the fact that we are running out of landfill space. Here are some of the gems noted in the report; “We’re running out of places to dispose our trash” “⅓ of the nation’s landfills will be full within the next few years” “If we wait, the problem will get worse.” Without going into extensive details, landfills are not running out and landfills do not harm the environment.

Why are we still recycling???