Like the meme of a cover where the Recycling and Trash holes drop into the same garbage bag, it seems the whole system does more to make people feel better than it does to increase reuse.<p>In America, reusable material has a 1 in 4 chance of even getting into the system, then it moves along a reuse maze to evetnaully be illegally dumped in India or elsewhere:<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycling-pollution/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycl...</a><p>Why does it seem like we're just polishing the glassware in the Titanic's dining saloon? Making everything look clean when it's all going to end in disaster anyhow?
There are some low-hanging fruit that isn't implemented. Just today I was in a food court that has categories that aren't clear for the common items disposed in a food court. Identically shaped rectangular hole does for garbage vs recycling, and why do the cylindrical bottles not go in the round one? We would do much better if we optimized for clearly marking where the high volume recycling goes and minimizing false positives going in.