I would be looking for ways to revert that update. Either using a pre-existing timeshift shapshot or maybe apt's built in reversion capability. (Which I'm not familiar with, sorry.) Hopefully someone with real skills will chime in, good luck.
Lots of places in the US won't recycle the supposedly "recyclable" plastics, it ends up in a landfill regardless of what you do. I remember all the educational initiatives about the importance of recycling when I was a kid. Turns out it was all just propaganda to make us feel responsible for problems caused by corporations.
I can enjoy a good AI generated image but this one feels especially lazy.