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In my complex, we have multiple recycle streams. Paper in 4 bins, cardboard in a dumpster, organic waste in a couple of bins, glass in a couple of bins and plastic/metals/etc. in 4 bins. A nice idea in theory. Sadly, the practice is not quite the same.
For instance, last time, I dumped our organic waste into it's bin, someone had mostly filled both the organic recycling bins with styrofoam packaging.
On another occasion, a large uncollapsed cardboard box was filling an entire paper bin. When it was removed, it was found to be full of garbage, food scraps, letters, resumes, job applications printouts, etc. When the owner of the garbage was contacted by the strata council, their response was that the council had no business going through their garbage.
Then we could go through the number of times, the glass recycling bins have been filled with plastic bottles, garbage, borosilicate glass cookware, etc. Evidently, the big sign saying that the bins are for glass and listing a lot of items that should not go into the bins are just there for decoration.
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