Well, since the city should be making a lot of $ on recycling, I don't know that they are really trashing our recyclables. A call to Pub Works is in order, or at least a response from them on this thread would be helpful.

I've heard similar reports of trash and recyclables not being separated. Can someone from DPW weigh in on this?

From my discussions with DPW, they will still occasionally pick up a blue bin that's full of trash, although they aren't supposed to. That's the most likely explanation. From what I've seen around Fair Haven, there are two separate trash trucks making rounds; one handles the blue bins and the other truck handles the brown bins. They are doing single stream recycling now, but not single stream for everything.

LCI Citywide Helper assigned this issue to Department of Public Works

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