Recycling?

Rise of hands to the people that have had this moment:

You walk up to the recycling bins at a local coffee shop and find yourself staring blankly at the bins realizing that your straw, cup, sleeve, and lid all go into different ones. After a few long moment of second guessing yourself, you give up and decide that throwing it all into compost is going to be your best option.

My hand is raised high in the air. I've found that ever since I have moved into Bellingham recycling has become way more intense. The standard blue trash can with the recycle symbol has turned into three or four different cans. Now you have your compost, plastic, cans, bottles, black plastic, plastic with lip stick on it, bottles with the label peeled off, and biodegradable waste product found at the bottom on your purse. Ok so maybe some of those are a little over the top, but I think you get my point, it's rediculous these days. I never thought I would walk away from a recycling bin feeling 1) confused and 2) bad because I feel as though I placed everything in the wrong bin and I'm going to personally cause global warming.
I can see the headlines now:
"College Student Places Straw in Wrong Recycle Bin: Three Polar Bears Die"

Ok no polar bears will be dying obviously but you get my point.

Moral of the story: Recycling. It's cray.