

It’s not city policy to leave green bins that violate organics waste recycling rules uncollected. When I asked the city of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department about this incident, they said that bin should not have been tagged and skipped. Turns out, the behavior-correcting garbage man was in the wrong. The bin was overflowing with takeout containers and plastic bags filled with trash. The city garbage collector left his trash-filled green bin unemptied and noted in the tag that the contents should be organics only.

Here’s what happened: A colleague found a tag attached to the green bin at his apartment complex. I recently discovered that if San Diegans put garbage in their green bins meant for food waste, the city of San Diego will collect them anyway.

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