[Flick Lives]

Other communities, like Grants Pass, Ore., home to about 37,000 people, are continuing to encourage their residents to recycle as usual, but the materials are winding up in landfills anyway. Local waste managers said they were concerned that if they told residents to stop recycling, it could be hard to get them to start again.

So residents are charged more to pay for separate pickup of "recyclables", they waste hot water washing out plastic containers, sort them out to the proper bins, then it all ends up in the same place at the dump.

The recycling company wins with a fat city contract. The city wins with higher collection fees. Well, two out of three ain't bad.

[robroys woman]

This is a “must see” video on this very issue. It is absolutely hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcdNaajKExs

It is an excerpt from the penn and teller recycling video where they “test” consumer response to using something like ten different recycling bins at home.