Guess who seems to be the main problem:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-09/indonesia-to-ship-back-contaminated-australian-waste/11292540
Had it happen at a previous town I lived in where the younger generation just didn't care about recycling (they
received notices to get it right and then had the bin taken away for a 3 month period and after it was returned
they still chucked rubbish in it).
They even had someone from the council go to the schools to try and get it correct.
The council now sends it's recyclables over a 100 kms away as it's to costly to do it themselves now.
Their recycle place had to keep chucking full loads into landfill as it was all contaminated with nappies and other
garbage such as takeaway food scraps in their containers,car parts and even TV's and computer stuff,etc.
So they had workers standing around with nothing to do.
It's still happening now and when you talk to some of them they can't even phantom that only specific things
can be recycled and the rest is just garbage (their main excuse for the nappies was always the bin was full so
had nowhere else to put it).
The bins were generally full as they were half filled with recyclables and the recycle bin wasn't even half full.
We used to have recycle bins and skips here but they all got removed because of some of the similar reasons
but the culprits are the older generation (one of them chucked 2 garbage bags full of grass into one of the
skips and a number of TV's ended up in them as well).
