Going Green! How?

I saw a news about school children doing a road campaign to Go Green. There are posters to say recyle/reuse. All this is great and really makes lot of sense as we need to save our environment and resources. Government is talking about it, Corporates are talking about it, we have green cars, green computers and what not but what about trash we generate in house holds? We got everything from plastics to glass to cans, paper. How much of that is being recycled?

I stay in an apartment complex with over 300+ apartments. You can imagine the amount of garbage getting generated on a daily basis. The typical cyle of trash is - each house hold put out trash in a plastic cover and keep it outside their aparment for maintenance people to pick it up. The collected is dumped in to a common area in the apartment complex which is then cleared by city corporation. Now I have no clue if this trash is simply dumped in a big garbage land or recyclable items are extracted out of it??

There is a very simple solution that people in the west are using. There are two bins, one for the regular trash and the other for the recyclable trash. This makes people separate the two types of trash and put them in appropriate bins (well you will still have some lazy souls who will not bother and dump everything in one trash :).). You have good amount of stuff that is getting recycled.

Why can't the we implement similar thing in our country? I know that we all do that with news papers (well you get money for it so why not :)) but for sure lot of stuff is just being dumped with regular trash. What are teh challenges? Is to too hard to implement? too expensive? Why do you think the government is not enforcing this in some way?

What's your take on this?