Lol
My friend who was a garbage man in the 90s and even up to about 2010 said they were bringing all of the cans and pails to the same place.
I’ve heard that also. From what I read the mixed recycling from household use is often not worth it to sort. They will happily take say, cardboard waste form a retail or office building as that is usually segregated to a separate cardboard only dumpster.