A few years ago Ireland had a glass bottling recycling "initiative" There were hoppers for clear, green and brown glass that you used depending on the colour. When they were full a tipper truck with a grab came and collected them, glass was all mixed up but that didn't matter as the glass was sent to landfill in the UK. You couldn't make this stuff up!
In my recycling centre they have facilities for plastic bottles, cardboard, paper, drinks cans, food cans, paint cans, aerosol cans, garden waste like grass, timber (non manufactured), scrap metal, polystyrene, waste engine oil, waste cooking oil, batteries, clothing, beds mattresses and furniture, rubble (no DIY waste) small domestic appliances, white goods, pallets and plastic bags. I think that's it all!
Some of the stuff I see in there is criminal bicycles, cookers. once a very usable 6 ft welding table, tools, metal shelving etc As it's a recycling centre I would have thought the idea of reusing stuff was recycling but no. The customer pays, the customer sorts the materials and the privately owned "recycling company" sells the stuff directly to the Chinese cleaned, sorted and probably at a premium because of it Grrr