Recycling. You're not recycling... You're sorting the garbage in hopes that somebody recycles it.
Kinda like:
3. "The cigarette does the smoking, you're just the sucker."
A quote from anonymous, this saying is used to convince people to stop smoking or to never start in the first place. However, it just doesn't make sense to say this because if you have a lit cigarette in your mouth and you are inhaling the smoke, you are consciously smoking. Fact: checked.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/ten-common-phrases-sense