And the Dumpsite Holds Them All

My friend shook his head when I tossed a PET bottle into a recycle bin.

Friend: Do you know where the segregated paper, plastic and glass all go after this? The SAME dumpsite.

Me: Huh?

Friend: The efforts to make Hong Kong green is only superficial. The truth is no so rosy. It makes no difference at the end of the day whether you, an individual, segregate your trash or not. There ain’t such thing as “recycling”. Everything goes to the dumpsite.

Me: *incredulous* What’s the point if only the  people are putting in all the efforts to make Hong Kong a sustainable city, and the government doesn’t care beyond that?!

Friend: *matter-of-factly* Well, welcome to Hong Kong.