That is the biggest lie they are feeding us, if that is true they must have invisible facilitities and people working for free !, when was the last time you knew anyone working at a recycling facility let alone doing the actual recycling ? There were start ups locally back in early 2000's which all went bankrupted because they weren't making enough money.
Show me one facility that is separating the trash and recycling ? ...all you ever see on TV is a forklift driver piling trash into a container heading to China, they never show the actual operation running !
Recycling works if you are China or India which can recycle and produce raw material at a lesser cost. So hypocritical western governments instead of demonizing these countries should actually congratulate them for doing our recycling !
China's central government has just recently implemented Operation Green Fence, now we will really have to build recycling facilities instead of pocketing taxpayer's money for doing nothing for the past two decades !