What happens to all the old bottles is yet another issue, but I digress. I pay for a large recycling bin in addition to regular trash, but I'm willing to bet that if I followed the trucks that picked-up the contents of both bins, I'm willing to bet they both get dumped in the same pile 'o garbage.

BTW, here in the USA, the 3-arrow "recycling" logo with a number in it that you see on most plastics isn't actually a recycling logo, it's just a logo designed to be deceptively close to the recycling logo that designates the type of plastic the product is made of. For many plastics, it's not remotely cost effective to recycle the plastic into a new product and for some plastics, recycling isn't viable at all.