In my local jurisdiction (a part of the US) the recycling bin is only allowed to be filled with cardboard and metal cans.

Glass/plastic/contaminated cardboard and others are all required to go into the trash.

Which makes no sense, glass is infinitely recyclable, yet it is not, it is instead brought to the local dump.

Now here's the kicker, I was talking the to the trash collection people around the winter break (tip your trash collection folks well, and they will make all kinds of stuff disappear) and they mentioned to me that because there is no demand for cardboard/metal recycling while they load it into two different trucks, they end up at the exact same dump.

This was confirmed not too much later when I went with my contractor to the dump to get rid of a ton of construction material, where I saw two dump trucks right next to each other, one filled with trash and one with recyclables.

So very little actually gets recycled in the United States. Most of it ends up in giant piles, buried...