You lose a bit of it every time you recycle, turned into non-recyclable compounds.
You will lose half of it in half a dozen iterations or so. What wouldn’t be a big deal if so much of it wasn’t single-use, but it is.
Also, aluminum is more polluting to make than most plastics. It may compensate for that with the easiness of recycling or not, depends on lots of details.
Hum… No, that’s not things happen. In the real world it’s:
“His phone’s encrypted. That’s proof he’s a criminal, arrest him (and the family if you want) and send him to a death camp or whatever.”
Or even more likely:
“Yeah, I shoot the guy. What do you mean looking at the phone? Why do you want evidence?”
Well, you shouldn’t have to spend any time actually fixing code found by that rule either. If the time you spent was larger than 0, you are better looking for the cause than making something that fixes it automatically.