Corporate recycling or ?

I often wonder, as I toss yet another script or coke zero can into my desk waste basket, if it all really ends up being recycled. Posted about twenty five steps from my desk at the watercooler is a printed out page explaining how this one-basket system saves time, money, human energy, the whales, and who knows what else, since it's all sorted at the lovely plant none of us will ever have to see.

Since none of us ever have to see it, does it exist? And since none of us (okay maybe a few of us - myself included) bother to sort our 'food waste' from 'anything recyclable' as this handy corporate sheet says to, are 'they' - the ones at this fantastical plant, actually sorting it? Or does it all just go into one big landfill or incinerator? Sadly, I'm pessimistic enough about big companies and their waste management to give my office a 50-50 chance of actually recycling our waste.

Maybe all 700 of us could do this?

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