[colorado tanker]

China has stopped taking most of our recycling, so there is not much of a market for it anymore. I suspect most of what we put in recycling bins is now going to landfills.

But, I still recycle. Go figure.

[Chickensoup]

except for cardboard, every recyclable is burned in this state.

Therefore I no longer recycle.

It is a trained chimp act.

another government intrusion and demand without merit or meaning.

[Malsua]

I suspect most of what we put in recycling bins is now going to landfills.

Companies that have a lot of waste cardboard will bail it and nearly all of that gets 100% recycled.

Most county level/town level recycle centers that have you place items in separate bits/compactors (i.e. Multi Steam) and whatnot gets nearly 100% recycled.

At least 1/4 of comingled/single stream "recycling" hits the dump. They will generally try to get most of the aluminum out, use air jets to blow some of the plastic into recyling but the rest isn't worth the effort. It's cheaper to haul to the dump. If they get too much in any particular period? Straight to the dump. If you don't live near one of the big recyclers? Same. It's easier to send one truck, pick up co-mingled, get some value out of it and dump the residual, even if the residual is greater than the recycled material.