When I was doing contract work in Iraq, all the mess halls had recycle bins set up to deposit various items for recycling. However, when our company was tasked with determining the number of recycle facilities located in Iraq, we found that they had nada, zilch, none in the entire country. It all ended up in the local dump, except for the aluminum cans, which apparently the chinese were getting. A “feel good” program that accomplished little to nothing.
They just took the DNA samples and then sent the cans to the dump.