Just going through the motions

Label on "Husky" brand parts organizer, Home Depot

Label on "Husky" brand parts organizer, Home Depot (Detail)

Recycling is generally a good thing to do. And most manufacturers encourage their customers to recycle packaging to minimize the amount of stuff that end up in landfill sites.

But this is worse than useless. The label is printed on some sort of plastic material. In order for this to be recycled the material must be identified with one of the codes shown below. 

Plastic resin codes
(Source: http://www.plastixportal.com/recycling_of_plastics.html)

With no code on the plastic it can't be recycled and will therefore end up in landfill site, or be burned. Neither of which are the desired outcome. 

So, it looks as if Husky and Home Depot are doing something good and encouraging recycling, but they are not actually doing the one thing that would make recycling possible.