[lafroste]

Where I live, no matter where you dispose of recycled material, it all ends up in the landfill anyway. I asked about this once, why should I go through all this trouble for nothing. I was informed that the actual recycling hadn't started yet, but the populace still had to be trained to do it. That was 15 years ago.

BTW: it still hasn't started yet.

[Organic Panic]

This reminds me of one of my trips to the Alps of Italy. The Europeans are absolutely insane about recycling. There will be 6 to 10 cans and people will gather around to sort everything from used napkins (in the paper? nope, that goes in the dirty paper bin) plastic forks go in a different bin than plastic bottles, and on and on. I was sitting out drinking some wine and enjoying the scenery when up drives Mario and Luigi and they proceed to empty all the bins in to their truck, co-mingled, and off they go. It’s enough to give any German a heart attack.