We fill the recyclables barrel full up every week, but I wonder how much of it is really getting recycled these days. I've read that China has stopped taking a lot of the plastic materials they used to take, and I've heard that in some places they still pick up the recyclables separately from the garbage, but it all ends up in the same landfill anyway.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
As an aside, recycling bags aren't recyclable.