Some years back our local paper published a story revealing that the volume of recyclables trucked to the county recycling facility exceeded the capacity of the facility.
So a good portion of the recyclables are then re-trucked from the recycling facility to the solid waste facility and end up buried in the county land fill.
But the county government was still spending money promoting increased residential recycling.
Because it made politicians and the locals “feel good” about what they were doing.