New Yorkers send a literal mountain of stuff — over 600,000 tons of material — to be recycled through curbside recycling ...

(Psst: It’s not the trash or the recycling bin). And how about all those ... waste that they’re sending to the landfill and feel good about where their stuff goes.” Ridwell was founded ...

The council says bins are confiscated from residents who repeatedly put rubbish in their recycling bin, even after warnings.

“The contamination in recycling actually costs us. It obviously slows down the recycling of good material, and at the moment, contamination is costing us about $3.5 million a year to deal with.