I've heard that all the recycling and trash gets put in the same place when the trucks pick it up and they just separate it later at the facility anyway. For any of you people who recycle heavily, this is heartbreaking news. All that hard work for nothing. They literally just don't have the trucks that could hold both separately, so they just said, "screw it."
If you're really going to recycle, you have to go to a recycling plant. Otherwise your recyclables are just getting mixed in with the trash anyway. I don't know about you, but if I'm going to do something good for the environment, I want it to actually be impactful. I don't need to just pat myself on the back for doing something useless. Many people do need that though.