Yeah, we have a similar thing in our kitchen, bins for recycling, compost and "garbage". People are completely useless at putting things in the right bins for recycling and garbage. Part of the problem is them not get emptied often enough so you get people dropping things into whichever bin isn't full. The compost one is usually ok because you actually have to lift a lid to open it, so people tend to only do that if they actually have food waste to put in.
One thing which has really annoyed me is the introduction of disposable coffee cups. There's a cupboard full of mugs, which have perhaps seen better days. Instead of just nipping to Ikea and spending $50 on a load of new mugs they decided they'd continuously buy paper cups and create more landfill. There's no only a handful of us which still use proper mugs (an Albion one, obviously) and everyone else seems to want that genuine Starbucks experience.
