environmental own goal

I'm having trouble understanding the sentence. The phrase "environmental own goal" doesn't make sense to me at all. Can you give more of the context, please?

Hi guys,

"Regulations on recycling paper will be an environmental own goal."

Does it mean environment will suffer as a result of new regulations put forward by officials who only look out for their own advantage?

An 'own goal' is an expression from soccer, used to describe a situation where a player accidentally k

Hello

I was thinking along these lines:

Environmental own goal ... goal that someone scored in their own net. What does 'environmental describe? The scorer?

What else it could?

Environmental ... environment suffered, as Clive said, but then they scored too (own goal), according to my mental delusions.

GG, there is no context; it was just an example sen

Oh, thank you! I learned something new today.

Can you think of how the regulations will harm the cause of environmentalism?

Springing back in their face causing damage to the environment they live in ... hmm, I am starting to develop a liking for it.

Can you please explain what you mean?

The officials who introduced the regulations on recycling paper to save their environment did a miscalculation that recoiled on them.