The recycling scam laid bare in California’s leftist heartland - Andrea Widburg

What I discovered a couple of years ago is that, while different trucks drive around collecting blue and green cans on garbage day, at the end of the shift, the trucks dump all the garbage into the same landfill.
It’s a scam that, according to my local representative, makes people feel good about themselves...
It turns out, though, that in Tiburon, California, the garbage collectors haven’t gotten the message. 

• This wonderful video shows that, while good citizens dutifully separate their trash according to complex instructions carefully written out on the garbage cans, the efficient trash collectors are unimpressed. 
• Everything goes into the same bin, then to the same truck, and from there to the same landfill: