Recycling doesn’t make any sense anymore. There is no market for the metal or glass that we all threw in recycle bins for years...Popular Mechanics ran an article about it some years ago and I stopped doing it! According to the article everything that is picked up is sent to the dump so the salary paid to the middle “men” is just money wasted!
I DO return my plastic shopping bags back to the store....they ask shoppers to return them and provide the cans outside to deposit them in so they must be making some use of them.