Honestly, if hosts can just get guests not to throw food waste in with the recycling, so you don’t have to paw through the muck, I’d say count your blessings.
I have two bins under the coffee station - blue with the recycling imprint and a paper sack in it and gray for the rest of the garbage. I explain it to guests when I ask them about coffee/tea needs and it still is confusing sometimes. I sort daily and if a guest accidentally sees me sorting I laugh it off and say “oh happens to me all the time, too.”
Yup! One of the fun perks of hosting, like getting hair out of the tub drain…
Or cleaning the loo…
Or cleaning toddler shit from the walls…
JF
Makes sorting the recycling sound a bit like a pleasant leisure activity.