Why is paper recycling so difficult and inaccesible?
Because it wouldn’t be economical to recycle without you sorting it. Different grades of paper (writing paper, newsprint,etc) are recycled using different processes. If you mix paper types together (even a yellow sticky pad in a trucklload of office paper) it contaminates that process and makes all that paper less valuable. I agree that some of the measures are ridiculous and can even seem punitive at times (I have had the recyclers refuse to pickup bundled recycled paper during a work to rule action by the union because “the twine was too long”!). Complaints from residents to the Mayor & Ward Councellors forced the company to send another truck, which was a huge waste of gas to do something which should have already been done.
