My county recently changes up the rules on recycling. And it was a bit eye opening. They now will only take #1 and #2 plastic, paper, and aluminum only in the m

My county recently changes up the rules on recycling. And it was a bit eye opening. They now will only take #1 and #2 plastic, paper, and aluminum only in the main recycling. Nothing else. They have nowhere they can send any other kinds of plastic to, at least for an affordable amount, because the entire region has nowhere processing it. As for glass, they no longer take it for recycling either. They will accept it at the land fill, rather than in normal collection, to be crushed and used in concrete. They also mentioned that food contamination is a huge problem, and can end up in entire batches of recycling ending up in the landfill instead. Because it is not cost efficient to sort it all out. Like most people think about cardboard pizza boxes as recyclable, however they tend not to be due to the grease.