I would hope that Royson is right when it comes to the attitude of people when it comes to garbage but past performance indicates that people will fall in line like sheep. Do we need more proof than the fact that people voted to send the same garbage, with a couple of exceptions, back to city hall?
People will do just about anything to save a buck. So, expect that citizens will risk jail time to avoid the new garbage fees city hall has planned, starting next year.
They'll dump their extra trash in the parks, on a nearby lawn, in an apartment dumpster, in the ravine. City hall knows this and city staff are planning to increase enforcement, but many scofflaws will escape detection.
Another expectation is that citizens will toss anything that can pass for a recyclable container into the new and larger blue cart, a wheeled companion that can hold four, six, eight times the traditional blue box.
Dumping in the new blue cart will be "free," in that you won't pay extra, no matter how much you recycle.
So, faced with an overflowing grey garbage cart (that you pay for by the volume) and coffee cups that could easily mix in with legitimate recyclables, the coffee cup will find its way into the expanded blue cart.
Already, many of these kinds of borderline recyclable goods end up in the blue box, though not allowed: clear egg cartons, drinking cups and takeout food containers, ceramics, potato chip bags. In the new waste universe, there will much more such "contamination" – unintentional and otherwise. It's almost impossible to catch and will pose a problem for the city.
One way to legally keep the lid on our trash output is to get a compacter. That should work well, especially when it's plastics and olyethylene and polystyrene that will form the bulk of the new "garbage."
The other solution – a more powerful and effective statement – is not to bring home the trash in the first place.
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