In our office there are separate containers for recycling.
One curious person (not me) was staying late one evening and followed the trash out the door to see what happened to the recycle baskets.
It turns out that the cleaning people took all of the recycle baskets and threw them in the regular trash dumpster!
On further research it turned out that the building had no separate place for recycled items.
This has to be happening in millions of locations in the country.
We need to recycle most of the government employees into Soylent Green.
For about a year or so, there were a couple of recycling bins that a 3rd party emptied once in a while.
There was so little because most things got tossed in the regular trash it wasn’t worth their effort. Nobody misses it.
When I worked at an IT department run by a left-wing phbette, you better believe she checked the bins at each desk regularly. I think most got dumped in the regular trash afterwards though.