because so many of the poep;le in Arizona are snow birds who have bflown south to avoud canadian winters...

I am told that the local garbage company actually runs everyething on a conveyer belt and they sort out the recyclables...seems like a messy
way rather than to encourage consumers to seperate at home.
although that would require seperate trucks and in this rural area
the transport is the main consideration.

i once operated a re-cycling station in the local store parking lot..
it was a one-time program to encourage people to bring in their re-cycleables. When i worked with disabled students, we often collected aluminum cans as a fund raiser. May of these kids work at a recycling center when they graduate school. There is one re-cycling center that is a work project for the disabled and it provides employment for them, and generates monies for programs to benefit the disabled.

I recycle and keep a compost pile and it takes me several weeks to fill one small (30 gallon?) garbage can, which needs to be taken to a place about 1/2 mile away near the closest paved road.

I gather up re-cyclaeables and thake them to town every year or two..
the last time i went to a re-cycle center was when i was helping some neighbors bottle their wine and we were taking bottles out to re-use.

the "logo" or motto often used is Reduce--Re-use--Recycle
the three "R's"