This picture shows the garbage containers of a residential apartment building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Taking into account the number of household items that are considered recyclable (newspaper, magazines, junk mail, phone books, scrap paper, cardboard, glass, plastics with a 1 - 7 inside the recycle arrow, milk cartons, juice boxes, detergent refill containers, aluminum cans, tin cans, steel cans, bi-metal cans and metal lids), is it a surprise to anyone that the normal garbage container, to the left, remains practically empty, while the much smaller recycling bin is always in a state of overflow?