We have a similar system here where I live. We don’t have to separate anything - we just throw all recyclables into a 50gal wheeled bin that is provided to each house in addition to the wheeled trash container. The recyclables are sorted by hand when the pick up trucks get to the waste facility. It provides unskilled jobs and more than pays for itself. The fact that it is such a simple system means that compliance is very high. It’s a win / win. The more simple the system, the better the results.
Privatizing the CA system would fix it all. Gov’t attempting to make a share of the profits has a way of screwing everything up.
“Privatizing the CA system would fix it all. Gov’t attempting to make a share of the profits has a way of screwing everything up.”
I live in the Bay Area in CA. We have had for many,many years curbside recycling. We have one contractor who picks up the garbage (small wheeled cart) and another who picks up the “recyclables” and the “green waste” (that are in separate large wheeled carts). He dumps both carts in the same truck, but he gets pissed off if you put some green waste in the recyclables bin and vice versa. Go figure! He also picks up used motor oil in gallon milk jugs, but if you try to put it out in a milk jug from the store, he won’t take it because it doesn’t have a hazmat label on it! Oh, and they are not permitted to touch anything you put out, so if they miss and drop stuff on the street, they drive off and leave it.