Some years ago a sanitation worker friend told me everything goes to the dump 90 percent of the time.
I guess that’s changed.
Aluminum is very easy to recycle. At times it can pay a lot of money to collect and crush.
Carboard is now the largest volume item in the trash. Carboard volume is about twice of all others: glass, aluminum, mixed papers, steel/tin, plastics. Cardboard is also very easy to recycle into more carboard. Maybe Amazon should be forced to recycle it if they are not already.
The problem is with the plastics other than # 1 & #2 PEET and PVC. Nobody wants the other plastics. Yet our supermarkets and other stores are full of plastic containers and packaging.
We need to go back to more waxed carboard cartons. We are not running out of trees.