Oregon failing to meet its recycling goals 

It's really up to consumers and industries not government... Blame yes but misguided...

Plastic is not recyclable

And providing a yellow brick road to all the drug addicts. Governor of Oregon is the Wizard

But pizza boxes are cardboard... Most pizza hut pizzas are pretty much cardboard. What's the problem?

Liberals in Oregon.

I recycle nothing, on purpose!!!

Woke,lol

They actually stopped accepting plastic 'recycling' from the USA

They put dirty diapers into recycling. That's why China doesn't want our waste

I do not recycle, I refuse to, I will NOT be socially engineered, everything goes in normal trash.

Agreed, we all need to do better.

LEAVE

Go away troll

That should be the trash company's job. I REFUSE to separate my trash!!!

Put the bin somewhere out of their reach.

Wahhhhhh

But the trash pick-up doesn't want most of it because the recyclers refuse it. In my Oregon town we can only recycle paper (not waxed food containers), metal and some plastics. Got a note telling me not to place plastic lawn furniture in the recycling. Oh well!

@Robert Cope I also dislike what counts as ♻️ consistency throughout the country. It's a joke, but we must start somewhere.

No, actually a lot of garbage is NOT recyclable. Starbucks type cups, pizza boxes, fast food wrappers, paper milk and ice cream cartons, the waxy paper that goes around reams of copier paper, plastic films and tetra paks are just a small sampling of the things that people 'wishcycle' all the time but are either not recyclable in almost any way or at least aren't practical to recycle in most places. And all but 1 or 2 kinds of plastic fall into the 'could be but not economical' pile to recycle. Personally , I think it would be better if we almost started over and said... Put tin cans, glass and aluminum in the recycle bin and nothing else. Maybe have spots you can drop off corrugated cardboard. At least those things have value and are ACTUALLY recycled in quantity. A tremendous amount of effort and cost is wasted hauling around and processing stuff that isn't really recyclable. Also, on a related note, I don't know why but it is nearly impossible to get people to break down cardboard in any setting. I've worked at places where the cardboard dumpster is full in a day because it has about 8 giant boxes in it that total maybe 15 pounds when it could have held literally a THOUSAND pounds of cardboard if people would just break it down. If we can't get that elemental task mastered in a professional setting, I have a hard time imagining us getting to the point where most of the plastic in the bins is pristine and even then the market for it is very weak.

Americans are lazy and they don't care about the planet.

NO! I defiantly REFUSE to!!!! What? Are you gonna MAKE me???

Except that you can't recycle it