As any American will tell you, Americans recycle.  Yes indeed.  Please do not think that we throw all of our trash into the garbage.  Thank you very much.  Sadly, some Americans don't do all they could.  Swede's are, I believe, more faithful to recycle.  

 

This picture is the area under our kitchen sink.  The only garbage bin is the blue one.  Although we simply do not have room under there for every different type of recyclable, when it gets taken down to the trash room, we separate it by newspaper, packaging paper, plastic, colored glass, clear glass, metal, and now we are recycling food (including meat products).  The food is turned into energy which is being used in the local buses (and maybe elsewhere?).  John and I are having trouble figuring out a good plan for where to put this latest addition, and I think something is going to end up being suspended on the cabinet door.  As I said, Americans recycle - although I do not know of an area in the US which collects food scraps.  Typically however, we now place all the recycling in one container and let the sorting machines deal with it

But however it is done, recycling rocks.