In NYC people have also gotten tickets for disposing home garbage into public garbage cans on the street. Long live Big Brother.
That’s silly. Garbage collection is free (paid by homeowner’s taxes) so what difference would it make if garbage is tossed in the cans in front of home or at the street corner.
I live in Greene County NY (120 miles from NYC). We recycle only if we want to...and we pay for our garbage by the bag.