No wonder people put Plastics in with the Burnables

I don't know how it is in your neighborhood, but where I live, plastics are only picked up twice a month.  TWICE A MONTH!  So when the day finally arrives that I can through out that stockpile of egg cartons and plastic trays, this is what the neighborhood garbage collection cage looks like:

When I approach this thing, I don't even want to open it, lest I welcome an avalanche of other people's two-week old trash to fall on me.

But it explains why when I put my burnables out there are always other bags with plastic shoved in them.  And here I was trying to be the diligent Gaijin by sorting my trash perfectly and storing my plastic trash for way too long.  I will not admit to following the same cavalier plastics-in-burnables practices as those in my neighborhood, but I will say that I don't have as much heartache about rescuing a few items that my two-year old accidentally throws in the wrong bin.  After all, when in Rome, right?