Comment by throw0101a

> I live in the EU, where I have five separate waste streams: glass, paper, plastic/metal, RVM plastic, and general trash.

In Toronto, Canada (and Ontario generally?) we use single-stream recycling:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-stream_recycling

So we have organic waste (food scraps, etc; green bin), recycling (blue), and everything else ("garbage"; black). Organics/green gets picked up every week, blue and black alternate (always on the same day: so one week green+blue, next week green+black).

For hazardous stuff you take it to a depot or wait for a city community event nearby:

* https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/recycling-organics-...

This past year the provincial government made it so that municipalities do not have to handle recycling anymore, but it is now the responsibility of the manufacturers ("producer responsibility model")

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_in_Canada#Ontario

* https://www.circularmaterials.ca/what-is-epr/

Is there a reason why all these separate streams are used where you live?