Oy, more loss of privacy
Now they will know who throws away what to a certain extent. Then what, the garbage police show up at your door for an explanation? This has the potential for just such a scenario. No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist and don't wear tin hats, so don't go there. :=)
I received a brochure from my garbage service yesterday (which they could have included with the bill, but they didn't thereby costing more). They want me to pay $8.00 extra to recycle. Ah, no. I don't think so. The electric company also wants to charge $6.00 extra for electricity from a "green" source. Ummm, no. I'm on a fixed income. When I lived in Sacramento, they gave me three cans, one for recycling which I used as they didn't charge extra. They also charged more for larger trash cans. I had the mid-size and if my neighbors had extra trash, I let then fill mine up as they let me use theirs when needed. Now, I take aluminum cans to a nearby recycler and get paid for them. They don't take glass so in the trash it goes.
They also had a "put your junk in the street and we'll pick it up free" day twice a year. The Russians would come around scavenging. The city frowned on such activity, but I didn't care. I remember putting out some stuff and sure enough, some Russians came by and asked if they could take it. I said they could. They took it all.
I used to take glass to the recycler in California until they wanted me to separate the glass by color. I already had three recycle bins in the garage, I was not about to increase it to six or seven. We left California shortly thereafter (not over this, but for a host of other reasons).
Bottom line: If they make recycling worth my while, I'll do it. If they make it difficult and costly, forget it.
