Yeah. Seen the news station talking about that a few months ago. Some cities are just taking the recyclables to the regular city dump's landfill like regular trash, and some are just burning it since that's cheaper than sending it to China... and I thought they said not to burn plastic? Well using an incinerator, not like a campfire... but still, feels a bit misleading. Then cities got grants to fund recycling and some cities even have mandatory recycling laws too for residents. Seems like we've all been scammed in a way, but I think the intentions of recycling is good.
Recycling Aluminum cans is actually much easier and better for the environment. If I recall correctly, it takes about 5% of the energy to make aluminum from recycled sources vs. from ore.
The fact that you can take cans into a recycler and get paid for them is a _really_ good indicator that recycling aluminum works.
