My wife and I have been practicing "reduce, reuse, recycle" for 50 years now, so I understand your pain. In the islands, though, the economies of scale do not just "complicate" things. They make it completely infeasible.

Like it or not, you just have to accept the fact that your waste is going to go into a landfill, or an incinerator, or be dumped off-shore. That's just the way it is.