The recycling mindset

We've still got quite a ways to go in recycling.

Brought a bag of recyclables down to the bin, and a staff working at a nail salon left a plastic bowl full of soup at the same bin. When I told her that was not recyclable with the soup and all, she was "This is a rubbish bin."

"No this is a recycling bin."

"Orh" And walked off.

Also, many people believe all the recyclables get collected into the same rubbish bin and become rubbish anyway. There are items like styrofoam boxes, cigarette butts... bubble tea cups WITH the bubble tea or pearls in them...

Doesn't help when there are people who have 'inside' information, saying that all these recycling intiatives are fake just to gain subsidies.

I suppose we should look on the bright side and be glad they are not throwing the rubbish all over the floor.

Incidentally, all these shops seem to lack a proper rubbish disposal system as they constantly throw things out the back of the shop, creating a lot of trash or they use the public rubbish bins around the area (which obviously can't support the amount of waste they generate). Shouldn't they have some rubbish collection???