Sort Out Recycling Once and For All

I'm sick of putting stuff in the recycling bin and wondering if it's actually getting recycled or just ending up in some landfill in another country. It's like nobody knows what's going on and it's all a bit of a joke. I've got a mate who works for the council and he says it's a nightmare trying to get people to follow the rules.

I'd change the system so it's simpler, just a few types of plastic and glass and paper, that's it. None of this confusion about what type of plastic or if the glass is the right color. And I'd make sure that everything that's collected actually gets recycled, not just shipped off to some other country to deal with. I've read somewhere that a lot of our recycling ends up in places like China or India and it's just dumped.

I'd also make companies pay for the recycling of their own packaging, that way they've got a vested interest in making it easy to recycle.