List of things that aren’t recyclable but that my downstairs neighbors continue to throw in our recycling bins despite my previous attempts to explain: pizza boxes (greasy), plastic bags, fast food containers, plastic from any product packaging, glossy magazines, your recycling thrown into garbage bags, old brooms, old vacuums, etc. If you throw any of those things into your recycling bin the assortment center just diverts all that into the garbage. Anyone know how many factories in the US take used plastic and turn it into new products on a mass scale? 1 factory does that here and they only process used water bottles. Clean metal, clean cardboard, and plastic water bottles are recycled, if they even make it to a facility, and everything else is just some 3rd world country’s trash.