An expose would likely reveal that the “sorted” recyclables all get recombined at the transfer station anyway before being shipped to a processing center for handling.
I can’t find it at the moment, but there’s a photo out there somewhere of a Starbucks recycle bin that supposedly has three separate holes for different types of waste, but it all actually ends up in the same bag.
That's true. I've been to the local transfer station on several occasions and have witnessed this happening.
We’ve watched the same happen in front of our house. Not all the time, but sometimes.