Recycling rates are up. The amount of trash we’re throwing into landfills and burning in incinerators is down. But with all that progress, our region still faces serious challenges when it comes to our trash. We look at Cape Cod’s trash troubles—everything from the rising recycling costs, to our propensity to just dump stuff in the woods, to the fact that we’re closely approaching the day when the landfills we already have will be full.