Thanks everyone. But I live in Western continental Europe and every week I load my small car with sorted heaps of garbage (colored bottles, transparent bottles,

Thanks everyone. But I live in Western continental Europe and every week I load my small car with sorted heaps of garbage (colored bottles, transparent bottles, paper, folded cardboards boxes, cans, plastic bottles each in a different bag, plastic caps, metal caps, etc.). My question was more about what can be done by an American citizen (as I assumed it was the case here) since the cliché is that the US doesn't do recycling.