...if maybe their contents end up at the same incineration plant as the "general non-recyclable" garbage. Think I've seen a few (storm in a teacup) "scandals" like that, about various municipalities, pop up in the media over the last decade or so. Specifically about plastics, that is. But all the rest -- glass, metals, paper, cardboard -- seems, judging from the lack of such media hullaballoo, to be working at least tolerably well.