High-tech carts will tell on Cleveland residents who don't recycle ... and they face $100 fine

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http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/city_of_cleveland_to_use_high-.html


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The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.

The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.

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City Council on Wednesday approved spending $2.5 million on high-tech carts for 25,000 households across the city, expanding a pilot program that began in 2007 with 15,000 households.

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The chip-embedded carts are just starting to catch on elsewhere. The Washington, D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Va., earlier this year announced it would issue carts to check whether people are recycling.
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good!

[RC]

1. Good Grief

Another way to subjugate the population. If they were really serious about recycling, the would mine the trash.

[ensho]

2. I hardly think this is 'subjugate the population'. this is:

trying to save the planet.

people who won't recyle should be fined

[The Straight Story]

5. They don't have much of a problem with it in CA - because they pay well to recycle

I was getting $1.40/lb for aluminum cans there. Homeless folks, poor people, etc saved all they could and could recycle most things within a mile of their house.

Add a deposit to recyclable materials, people will be picking streets clean of glass, plastic, aluminum.

[hobbit709]

6. It's about money more than saving the planet.

Cleveland found another "fee" to hit people with.

Like the go-round I had about 10 years ago with the city of Austin. They gave us the official trash cans for regular trash but they hadn't decided to give us an "official" recycling can yet. So I was putting our recyclable stuff in one of the old style cans and they would pick it up on recycling day. Then one day they didn't pick it up. so I printed up a sign "Empty bottles for Recycling" and taped it on the can. The next week they still didn't pick it up. I get on the phone and call their office and this is what I get.
"Well sir you need to put it in one of the blue containers we gave you"

"It's full of newspapers-that's why I put it the old trash can"

"The can might be too heavy for one of our people to pick up"

"The paper bucket weighs about 50 lbs full and the can full of empty bottles and cans weighs about 25 lbs. If I can cart it out to the curb with my bum arm, one of your able bodied workers should be able to get into the truck."

"Well, we won't take it that way"

"You have two choices-you can put it in the recycling truck or I'll put it in the regular trash and it goes to the landfill. It costs ME the same amount of money either way."

About an hour later the truck comes back and empties the can and I didn't have any more problems. Now we have an "official" recycling can which they only pick up every two weeks instead of once a week like before.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. A "Trash Supervisor" to rifle through the garbage -- now I've heard everything!

On the other hand, it probably beats being a Poo Inspector or Methane Monitor. Heck, if it pays reasonably well, I'd be tempted to apply -- even though I know the really good jobs in our new and improved economy (like Trash Supervisor, Grade 5 and above) will go, as usual, to the well-connected and related.

[Fla_Democrat]

4. so, roll it out there empty, roll it back

The driver pulls up next to it, 'dumps' it, and everyone is happy.

On a side note, that must be a real shit job... "My daddy's a fireman, what does your daddy do?" "My daddy picks through garbage cans to see if people are recycling." Makes ya so proud. :eyes:




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