In Switzerland, trash is taken very seriously. You usually have at least 4 sorting bins under your sink for paper, plastic, aluminum, organic, and then general trash.
I have observed a wide range of differences when it comes to trash collection and recycling. In Singapore we lived in an apartment and had a live-in helper, so I am really not sure where the garbage went as she took care of it. I think there was some central room where trash bags were sorted.
In Thailand, you simply put everything out on the street in big trash cans and passers-by would sort through it. Once a week an old Thai man would come up our soi (street) riding a bike that pulled a cart. He’d yell some incoherent thing that sounded like “bring out your dead”. He was collecting cardboard so that he would take it to the recycling facility nearby and make some money. You only need 25 baht for a decent street meal in Bangkok, and I am sure he made good money as his cart…
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