Too Much Recycling Information: Barcelona Spain 2022

"Less is More". "TMI". "The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good". Recycling activists, enthusiasts, and considered experts all seem to have a personal relationship with at least one intelligent, well-meaning, considerate, educated person whose method of sorting recyclables from contaminants is, "what do I do with THIS?" 

They've learned enough about recycling to know that participation is good, contamination is bad. 

But despite having (in my friend's case a Ph.D) years of exposure to our advice, lectures, and examples, they are like an Expat who cannot speak our language. "What about THIS?" drew a #metoo laugh when I described my live in partner's method of recycling.  In her defense, she remembers where she puts her keys, I need to ask her for a reminder.