Since I moved to a farm on central KY it has become easy. We don’t have trash service so I do the following:
1. Food waste is thrown into compost bin.
2. Paper, plastic and anything else that will burn is burned in our burning barrel.
3. Glass and metal are thrown into a plastic grocery bag and I take them to work with me, where I throw them in the public trash bin on the street.
I am forced to pay city income tax (I don’t live in the city) and that is the ONE service from the city I actually use. :)
This recycling thing is not only stupid, but the fact that they even CAN investigate your garbage is not about finding violations. It is about reminding you that you are under their thumb at all times. It is a quality of life thing.
And out here the quality is MUCH higher. Cities in a fascist regime steal your soul.
Many years ago there was an article in the newspaper that exposed what was actually happening with this Recycle “program”.
They photographed the Recycle collection trucks meeting up with the regular trash trucks and tossing the recyclables into the regular trash trucks.
The “Recycle Bin” is just a way to DOUBLE CHARGE the customer for what a single charge used to cover.