How strange, we went the other way, we used to have the stupid blue bag and a crate for the rest, then it flipped to everything in the new larger wheelie bin
There is definitely a point to separating at our household recycling centre in fact the men who work there are quite militant about it, different companies come to take away the various big skips, so a scrap metal company takes the metal, Oil salvage take the oil etc There's only certain sites that will take paint. Tellys and computers in another but small electrical itens in another. It really is well organised