We do segregate dry and wet waste and a large part of resource recovery is possible due to that. But what about tiny stuff?
Small metal pins, wires and stapler pins come to us in different ways. Technically they should be put in dry waste. Unfortunately the present segregation process is manual. Being very tiny bits, it becomes very difficult to select out the pins and they may not be recovered.
So each of us have to make a box with a small slit at the top (like a piggy bank) and collect the waste pins and metal bits inside it. It will fill only after a decade or so. Meanwhile, it stays with you storing all the pins. When it fills up, we seal the cover to avoid spilling and put it in dry waste.
POINT TO REMEMBER- A similar system will work very well for battery cells
