Recycling

My sister became freak into recycling... paper, plast, bio, glass, aluminium and the rest.
Is it usefull? Should people really recycle?

Some years ago in Czech, there was an issue that although most of us were recycling the three main materials - glass, plast and paper, we found out that all the materials are being dumped on the same heap with the rest of the rubbish anyways. Thus all our work was useless.

Now it seems we are further than before. We received new dustbins, people seem to be using them again and all three materials are being brought to three different heaps - paper, glass and plast. Yeay.

To our great dismay though, we found out that the plast from EU is being gathered and transported to China to whom we pay and China burns it.
Well done, so much for ecology. EU has clean hands, China is the bad one. But Earth is only one so who cares who burns it if it is being burnt...

I wonder which country is gonna be the first one to make some unpopular decision like Bangladesh by banning plastic bags. How far does all this have to go before the governments tell the big companies to fuck off and do some good for a change.