@Miraz yes .. rubbish bin … but that requires 5 million people to be ‘at one’ … I ride the Auckland Waiheke ferry a lot .. and there are two recycling bins and one rubbish bin near the counter where you buy a coffee on the boat.

Ignore the signs and colors of the bins and just look inside the open topped bins and you really cannot tell the difference, cups with and without lids .. in all, paper plates, cans and glass bottles .. pretty good .. plastic water bottles etc you get the point.

The content of those bins eventually end up at the recycling plant, and wondering how that plant sorts out those lids … because no matter how good an individual might be .. the aggregated population is not.

So if not sorted, what happens at recycling center? Machine breaks? Lids aren’t processed? More money spent in additional sorting ? Trying to understand the impact.

Strikes me that if the country agrees that recycling is important, then the pressure needs to be applied at the aggregated level .. not the individual …