[MtBaldy]

I’ve refused to recycle from the beginning. The dirty little secret is that most recyclables end up in the dump anyway has been known by anyone who wanted to dig since they started it, not to mention the tons of greenhouse gases created picking it up. Recycling was from the beginning mere pandering to the greenies for political capital.

[COBOL2Java]

A couple years ago they did an expose about the "recycling" trucks used in Washington DC. DC residents are required to separate their plastic, glass, and paper into individual bins.

The authors followed the trucks as they dutifully collected up the three separate bins. The trucks went to - you guessed it - a landfill in Virginia.

In the same story, they discovered that although there were three openings in the trucks for the three separate bins, the stuff all went into a common container.