Crazy bonkers idea... The cities I've lived in (in the US) provided the garbage and recycle bins. How about printing the recyclable materials and exceptions ON

Crazy bonkers idea... The cities I've lived in (in the US) provided the garbage and recycle bins. How about printing the recyclable materials and exceptions ON THE BINS. Put it on the lid, so it can be easily customized for each community. It amazes me that no one has proposed this yet. Another idea - randomly choose streets to spot check recycling behavior and flag the cans based on their score. Nothing exotic - don't have to do it constantly or over large areas, simple 3 score system (good, acceptable, and poor), and just a quick peak in the bins as they are manually thrown into the truck. Your score is affixed to the bin, which you are rolling out every week for all the neighborhood to see. Of course there would have to be some discretion, like people just moving in, hence the process being manual, and probably some exemption process. The next week, those rated poor will be rechecked and rescored. Fail again and you get a warning that has the problems checked off from a list. After 4 consecutive failures you receive a fine. Or maybe you have to deliver your garbage to a sorting facility where someone will go over the process. Or there's a class. There are lots of options beyond throwing up a website hidden behind 3 different local government portals.