I mean.. teaching kids how to recycle plastic sounds like those documentaries you see on child laborers cooking mercury over a gas stove to do artisanal gold tailing extraction.

Combine with the OP's explanation of how they had a little oopsy and a worker got a passive voice injury but they're such smol beans that they can't figure out worker safety, insurance, etc. so the big mean lawyers are suing them

Even their own self-description makes them sound like exactly like the kind of burning man self-actualization sociopaths you describe