Here in Saint Paul, MN, the recycling rules are quite strict. Aluminum cans must be rinsed out and flattened. Rinsed out. Newspapers can't be just put in a bag...they HAVE to be tied in a bundle. Cardboard must also be tied in bundles.
I still recycle the newspapers and cardboard, but the cans go in the trash.
When recycling first became all the rage, I was a good little citizen and separated my trash into all of the categories.
There was no recycling pick-up at the time. Each person had to haul their trash to the library parking lot, and put their trash in the properly marked dumpsters.
One day, I arrived with my car full of junk to recycle. It just happened that the truck was there to empty the dumpsters, so I waited for the truck to get through,
Imagine my surprise when I saw that all the bins were being emptied into the same garbage truck and all mixed and mashed together in the one garbage truck.
That ended my recycling days forever.
If there's no market for the stuff being "recycled", then there's nothing to it but to haul it all to the landfill.
A country that hasn't the brains to expel the people who want to kill them and gets its knickers all in a twist over bits of paper is a country that has only a short while to live.
The head-choppers will take over and then there will be a lot of bits of paper all over the streets.
And somewhere George Orwell is laughing his ass off saying "I told you so"
Here, here!
Just because!
A "journalist" huh? Good, in fact he should have been fined more, especially if he was a BBC or Reuter's Terrori...er journalist.