[RushLake]

However, recycling is something I've actually enjoyed doing over the years. I actually get some small satisfaction knowing that my aluminum cans, plastic bottles and newspapers are going to be reused as opposed to filling up the local land fill.

A few years back, American Spectator Magazine had an article about recycling. What the author of the piece found out was that a lot of the trash hauling contractors pay lip service to recycling when they deal with municipalities. When the recycled goods go down the road to wherever that stuff gets centralized, its often centralized into the same hole in the ground as your other household garbage.

I was watching the recycling truck recently from an upstairs window. The guy jumped out of the cab, grabbed our orange bin containing newspaper, tin cans, plastic containers (only #2), looked around presumably to assure no witnesses, and threw it all into one of the sections on the truck.

[The Red Zone]

In my area, recycling is picked up by a different truck than the garbage. But I have no idea what they do with it after they pick it up. They don't take #6 plastic, which seems odd if all they do is to store it.