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Not Recycling

Charge people on a per item basis for things they throw away that could be recycled.

Start a city department, or a division within the waste management department, that pulls out recyclables from people's garbage and ads a fee for each item to their trash collection bill each month. They would get the message real quick! This could be done curbside. Sanitation workers would note items on an address grid. The addresses would be computer referenced to the billing systems with names of residents. Workers would pull only the obvious bottles, cans, etc. so that it would not take excessive time from their collection rounds.

Contributed by Glen Khalen

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on Charge people on a per item basis for things they throw away that could be recycled.

that would be absolutely horrible in this year's economy.
- louis granju

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