Chalk one up for the bureaucrats.
Back in the 70s when it still wasn't too late to save humanity, in the Eugene-Springfield area, the hippy rag-pickers wanted to rent a farm directly across from the entrance to the [then] Day Island Sanitary Land Fill. The city said "We don't want hippys near our trash" and they were relegated to a location just beyond the railroad overpass on Seavy Loop (literally the other side of the tracks).
Here we are years later, and the City has a Central Processing Facility in Glenwood (it's a conduit to to a mountain their building somewhere south of Cresswell). BRING (the hippys), Goodwill, Nextstep (electronics) Recycling and other commercial processors all coexist right there.
If I didn't haul my recyclables there, that would be one less reason to keep a car on the road and not get a bicycle trailer.
I believe source separation is a moral obligation. If the stuff is in my possession it's my responsibility. I admire people like this guy: