Recycling seperation is a work in progress. The best is still hand sorted. We have four seperate bins here, and the local recycling depots do an awful lot more categories.
I think (and hope) that it will get better, but I think the most hopeful progress is that we are becoming aware of the issues and finding alternatives for non re-cycleable when at all possible.
Carrier bags, straws and cotton buds are a case in point. Wet wipes seem to be next on the agenda.
In my youth there was very little waste in the bins, and what there was, if folks didn't garden, was mostly ash. But the air was filthy in the towns because folks burned everything they could.
We live and learn, thankfully
M
I think (and hope) that it will get better, but I think the most hopeful progress is that we are becoming aware of the issues and finding alternatives for non re-cycleable when at all possible.
Carrier bags, straws and cotton buds are a case in point. Wet wipes seem to be next on the agenda.
In my youth there was very little waste in the bins, and what there was, if folks didn't garden, was mostly ash. But the air was filthy in the towns because folks burned everything they could.
We live and learn, thankfully
M