likewise at a large office building I'm familiar with it was said that because employees/building tenants contaminate the recycling bins with unrecyclable item

likewise at a large office building I'm familiar with it was said that because employees/building tenants contaminate the recycling bins with unrecyclable items including food waste, there was no point to do anything but combine it into the trash however the recycling bins were kept presumably to keep people from protesting about trashing everything, and the memory of this news quickly faded the same goes for recycling bins in downtown toronto - they're so contaminated that they go straight to landfill