In our area, landfills are scarce, so local governments are incentivized to push waste into the recycling stream. The result is that they trained people "when

In our area, landfills are scarce, so local governments are incentivized to push waste into the recycling stream. The result is that they trained people "when in doubt, put it in recycling". Now that recyclers don't want to accept the low grade stuff from them, they have a re-education problem on their hands. I imagine the government employees who put out the bad information leading to this are all still employed and have probably been promoted.