"If they didn't care about recycling why would they make people sort their trash in the first place?" At least in EU, companies can get generous grants for rec

"If they didn't care about recycling why would they make people sort their trash in the first place?" At least in EU, companies can get generous grants for recycling, but there's little oversight, so often "recycling" part is only on paper or small part of total waste. Few years ago there was scandal in Lithuania, because thrash companies put different containers for plastics, glass, organics etc. but everything was collected by the same truck and mixed in the same trunk.