I'm a lifelong recycler (thanks, NY state can deposit!), but I have to say that at my Urbana complex where we've had recycling for a long time, people don't seem to be very good with it. I always hope it's because most of them are Asian and there's some sort of language or cultural barrier, but who really knows. I see them throwing bags of mixed trash and recycling into the trash all the time, or putting the wrong things in the recycling, or throwing cardboard in the trash when there's a dedicated cardboard dumpster right next to it. I sort of want to organize an informational door-to-door thing or send an instructional video around to them, but then I hate a few of them (e.g. my upstairs neighbor and his buddies) too much to actually do it.