The virtue signaling is getting old
The fines are ridiculous, but this is not the only place where garbage and recycling are thrown into the same truck. A friend worked at a large chain restaurant. She said the recycling and garbage bins that customers use are only for show. They both get tossed in the same dumpster by staff.
Years ago I worked with a recycling company. They were a client of the company I was employed by. The overwhelming percentage of recycled plastics were mixed in with standard household waste and dumped in landfills. Less so for aluminum and cardboard, because they had some resale value.
Highway department where I worked years back started recycling paper. Standard office joke was that the janitors burned it in a separate barrel.
Probably not to far from the truth.
They made a rule/law then realized they would have to triple the amount of trucks, collectors,etc that would have to do the work so it's just green washing bullshit now.
Send one garbage truck, dump it all in the landfill. If you catch someone using the wrong bin fine then and keep the $$$.
Almost nothing gets recycled.
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