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Since modern trash-collection trucks use an hydraulic arm to lift and dump trash bins into them--which therefore have to be a uniform, large size (usually with wheels), this is kind of a non-story. Since this dumpster-style trash collection is superior in nearly all ways--safer, faster, fewer employees, one large trash can in stead of several, it's got wheels so anyone can take the trash out......practically all municipalities around the country are using it.

Getting people to directly pay for their bins too, isn't a bad idea--as I bet fewer bins are damaged or abused that way.....

Public sanitation including trash collection is one legitimate area of government--not constituting a "nanny state."

Now in Charlotte, NC, there WAS a program (quashed due to public outcry) that put a computer chip into recycling bins...in order to monitor if they were being used.... Now THAT for sure is different....and DEFINITELY nanny-statism, and in fact totalitarian.

Just shows how easily something as basic and normal as trash-collection can become--in the wrong government hands...totalitarian and tyrannical.

Yeah, these bins are everywhere, I don’t see how this is news. I guess to people who live in rural areas, it seems unusual, but just about everywhere else, it is par for the course.

Since modern trash-collection trucks use an hydraulic arm to lift and dump trash bins into them--which therefore have to be a uniform, large size (usually with wheels), this is kind of a non-story. Since this dumpster-style trash collection is superior in nearly all ways--safer, faster, fewer employees, one large trash can in stead of several, it's got wheels so anyone can take the trash out......practically all municipalities around the country are using it.

It's also fantastic for vermin control. My city put this system in place more than a decade ago, and it's worked well. The initial receptacle is paid for by the city; if you want extra ones you pay for them yourself.

Public sanitation including trash collection is one legitimate area of government--not constituting a "nanny state."

I disagree. Private companies can do this just fine, if one chooses, and burning works quite well also for those not in democratic hell holes (e.g. urban areas). I live in a very rural area, on eleven acres, and have not had trash collection for years and get along just fine with a large masonary burn pit made from chiseled field stones that I made myself. I do not need nanny staters imposing their life choices and "necessary" government functions on me.

Getting people to directly pay for their bins too, isn't a bad idea--as I bet fewer bins are damaged or abused that way.....

??? I got my roll-up trash bins for free. Why should I pay for them?

Public sanitation including trash collection is one legitimate area of government--not constituting a "nanny state."

Again, why?

I pay $42 a quarter (hasn't gone up in 11 years, what else can you say that about?) for once-weekly trash pick-up; they take whatever's in the bin and whatever else I can stack neatly next to it. Also get a roll-up recycling bin.

If I don't get the cans to the curb early enough, they will come back by if their route still has them in the area; they've done it more than once.

And the bin is more likely to be damaged in the process of emptying than by anything the homeowners is likely to do. In fact, ours was once, and all it took was a phone call and a new bin was delivered a day or two later. The old broken one was taken away.