I’m exactly the same, and it was always 2%. I was always a slow eater, I’d always be hoping and waiting for the moment my parents would leave the room for a min so I could run to the sink and pour it down the drain. I asked as an adult if they had ever realized I had been dumping it if they left and somehow they never suspected.

Regular recycling isn’t even an option where I live. You can literally only get a regular trash container. Sticks/leaves etc they’ll take if you bring it to a center but there’s no collection for that either.