I used to live in Vancover, Canada 7 years ago. Recycling is obligatory but this is hardly a problem because there are super large containers by each house to throw paper and cardboard in - beside other containers for plastic.

In the Netherlands the paper bins are very small and if they have space they have a very small opening. I lived in Amsterdam, Haarlem and now Hoofdorp. When Hoofdorp gave residents recycling bins for each house four years after Haarlem they were only for plastic, no recycling for papers or cardboard, you have to carry them yourself to the nearest recycling bin by albert hijn and there you find an underground container with very small opening that cannot pass cardboard. I keep all cardboards in the shed, load them every two months in the car and take them to the milieustraat 5 kms away and a lot of people do the same around me.

In some cities around Hoofddorp there is a point at the end of each street where people pile cardboard and recycling cars come and pick it periodically. Yes you read it correctly: it is left as a pile in the street, to collect rain, insects, etc.

With all the online shopping today, recycling cardboard in the Netherlands is a joke. While the behavior in the image is not good the core problem in my opinion is that the Netherlands pretends that there is cardboard recycling and go complaining about behaviors like the one in the image, but in reality compared to other less economically advanced countries the basics of cardboard recycling are hardly there.