You finish drinking your beverage in its plastic bottle. The garbage can is ten feet away. But look! There is a recycling bin less than four inches away!

You throw your plastic bottle in the garbage can.

Also: when people don't take the caps off their plastic bottles before throwing them away. THEY CAN'T RECYCLE THEM WITH THE CAPS ON. SO YOUR EFFORT IS FUTILE. JUST UNSCREW THE THING!