Oh man don't get me going. There was an article in the newspaper here a few years ago called "Recycling is garbage" which was so true, the nut crunchers and the tree huggers screamed bloody murder when it was published. :laugh:
I know quite a few people who work in the "trash" industry here and the stories I hear are incredible. First off, many times it's more expensive to "recycle" certain wastes instead of just burning or burying them. Now wait, I can hear some of you saying "Yes but it's good for the environment" but is it? If you consume some sort of energy in the "recycling" process, there are certainly byproducts of that too that are many times MORE harmful to the precious "environment" that if we just buried or burned the waste in the first place.
Another thing that is funny, people religiously separate their brown glass from their green glass from their clear glass then it all gets mixed together either in the truck or at the trash plant. I'm tellin' ya, I've seen this first hand, it's a freakin' joke :laugh:
Recycling is mostly just a propaganda mentality to make us all "feel good" like we're saving the world. Well, if people REALLY wanted to make a SERIOUS contribution to the "environment" then stop driving those goddam SUV's that get horrendous gas mileage and are not subject to the same emission limits as passenger cars. Automobiles are probably the single largest harm to the environment of anything that we do with respect to air, waste & water.
I could go on and on but I'll spare you.
So to answer your question, NO I do not "recycle" I pay for a commercial toter that is picked up once a week and I am not required to separate out cans and bottles. Most household waste in Connecticut is burned and all of it has to be processed before it's burned. Other states are different.....