I remember when I bought my first house here in Texas. When doing lawn maintenance I always tried to use the mulching feature to recycle the nutrients back into the soil. That got me a thatched lawn. While mulching may be a thing in some places, you need rain to break down the clippings and we don’t have that down here. So now I bag clippings and leaves and such and off it goes to the landfill. While I’m not happy I’m not recycling it, at least it may be assisting the landfill in composting garbage.