I, for one, will always compost - but that’s to benefit MY garden and MY food production.
We crush & save Aluminum soda/water cans, and cash them in when we take other metals to the scrap yard.
The rest of the stuff? We burn paper trash (it’s allowed where we live) or shred it and add that to the compost pile, too. Plastics are either washed and re-used a few times, or they go into the recycling bin.
I know not everyone has these options, but as a whole, this ‘recycling’ scam IS going to come back and bite communities in the pocketbook.
But, we already knew that. ;)
I have a bin for my beer cans and one for the empty whiskey bottles and they go to town. All of the other stuff gets a one way trip to the burning barrel out behind the shed.
One of the untold benefits of living in the country!