When I was very little in Long Beach, Cal, there was a garbage truck that picked up garbage (you could smell it a block away) and a trash truck. In the 60s Sam Yorty of LA wanted to institute a plan where people would have to sort their trash. It cost him his office it was so unpopular. Now it seems like they want people to sort their trash, under threat of fine/penalty even though it is now all going to the same dump. The common theme seems to be, “We are going to make you do things for your own good” (even if it is pointless).
This is no big deal——recyclables go in one barrel,non recyclables in another.
It’s like that where I live also.
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