No, it's not. It's complaining about medicine that the National Institute of Health and other authority figures told you to take, that turned out to a waste of your time and mildly harmful.
But sure, I support the feds forcing the states to recycle properly, just as I support them being forced to offer decent healthcare.
The ones that opt out for sometimes inscrutable reasons doesn't mean the whole thing is a magic trick. It just means they are poorly run states with developing nation level provision of basic civic services.
People regularly raise this as a criticism of recycling.
It's kind of like complaining about medicine if you go to see a homeopath or a snake oil salesman.
Medicine has not "backfired", you just got tricked into doing something that was only pretending to be medicine. Aim your ire appropriately.