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That's interesting, My Mother's entire family are all rather conservative. None of them were hippies back in the day---they never identified with that part of boomer culture, and recycling is not habitual for them, either. Where my Mother lives, in rural Montana, there is no way to recycle, even if she wanted to.
What has always been fascinating to me is that more rural areas in NY state have better recycling programs than the more urban ones. Here we can only do 1 and 2 plastic and we live in a large city (weekly curb pickup). My parents can do 1-6 (you have to take it a center, which is open once a month). The place we are moving which is just as rural as my parents (if not more so) recycles 1-7 plastics by curbside pickup. It just boggles my mind. But a lot of it has to do with if you have a buyer or not in your region, but I honestly can't believe that some of these rinky-dink places have buyers but the major cities don't.