My local recycling bins look somewhat like these:

![enter image description here][1]

As you can see, the opening can facilitate a single item at a time.

How is one supposed to dump a large sack of plastic packages in the plastics bin? How is one supposed to throw a medium-sized plastic object, like a baby's 3-wheel plastic bike?  
  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/tAvZL.jpg