The 5 boroughs of NYC do the same thing. My mother used to live in the Bronx and her niece was fined for putting a plastic hanger in the “plastic recycle” bin....reason, that PLASTIC hanger was garbage!!!
Sounds like revenue enhancement. As a freeper whose name I can’t remember said, there’s not a dollar in your pocket that the municipality - any municipality - doesn’t think isn’t rightfully theirs.