This is because if it becomes easy then it won’t matter and all the marketing, non profit orgs and everything goes away, making it a non problem.

While I am sure you will find people who will like these ideas and want them, they will have zero control.

At this point recycling is a marketing thing. And it’s more important that people think about the cause than solve the problem.

Which sounds good, but the B-52 planes used eight very old jet engines each that are complex to maintain.

Rolls Royce offered to replace these with four modern turbofan engines but were turned down.

They finally relented and there’s a new program that will run to the end of the 2030s(!) to replace the eight engines with… eight engines.

This doesn’t sound simple, or cheap.

I keep pointing out to people that if a real world war broke out, every country with a commercial wide body fleet will immediately convert them to bombers. Far cheaper, far simpler to maintain, and with much faster turnaround times / lower maintenance hours per flight hour.

Unfortunately, I don't see an alternative to that given how juicy targets even locked phones were for "chop shops" before Apple introduced parts pairing. People were mugged left and right for their phones.

(Obviously the solution would be to tackle poverty, drug abuse and mental health issues, but that is even more unrealistic)