cyrnel

Absolutely. A girlfriend guilted me into it many years ago and the habit stuck. If I'm pinched for time sometimes I'll discard things instead but it haunts me at night. My curbside averages about 50/50 garbage/recycle.

It does bother me they charge to recycle the items that are clearly profitable.

Yard debris pickup: ground up and sold as mulch for $5/yd.
Steel and other metals: Turned around for $hundreds/ton.
etc.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195