The city where I live is quite progressive and has excellent recycling programs for single-family homes. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment community, where

The city where I live is quite progressive and has excellent recycling programs for single-family homes. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment community, where there are no equivalent programs. The City won't send any trucks to pick up recycling, they won't provision any containers for us to separate it into, etc. All we've got is a set of six Dumpsters, and people put everything in there. Literally, everything: microwave ovens, sofas, scrap metal, etc. There's simply no opportunity for separating recyclables. I just don't do it. I used to collect cans in separate bags, because our groundskeeper redeemed them somewhere, and my collections would save him the trouble of dumpster-diving. This worked out great until he retired. There is simply no reason or impetus for me, or anyone else, to put effort into recycling. Either our local dumpster-divers do it for us, or it goes to the landfill.