Recycling: the cost of going green  Councils are moaning about
the costs of recycling. Would you be willing to pay more for
better facilities, and should you even have to? asks Jill Insley
Would you be willing to pay more council tax in order to improve
recycling facilities? Photograph: Graeme Robertson  In Observer
Cash this week, Jon Robins writes about how some councils are
failing to make the most of recycling opportunities. Although
many of us are willing to spend our evenings happily sorting
plastic from glass and cardboard from paper, local authorities
are not willing to do the same. Instead, they chuck it into one
big container with everyone else's rubbish and sort the whole
thing out later - a process called commingling.  This just isn't
good enough. According to a newly created alliance - the
Campaign for Real Recycling - up to 20% of commingled waste is
so contaminated it can't be reused. This compares to 1% when the
waste is kept separate.  Councils argue that collecting mixed
waste costs them le