[DugwayDuke]

My wife has relatives in Germany where you can be fined for failure to recycle and incorrect recycling, ie, plastic in the paper bins, etc. They have people who inspect and police such things.

[Does so]

My wife has relatives in Germany where you can be fined for failure to recycle and incorrect recycling, ie, plastic in the paper bins, etc. They have people who inspect and police such things.

When I was last in Germany, I noticed immense plastic blocks—presumably melted from Recyclables—were being used to shield neighborhoods from Autobahn noise.

Recycled tires were shredded and used for gun-range backstops. :)