Dive Brief:

• Cincinatti, Ohio's one-trash-can policy is being challenged on May 19, at a city council meeting. Interim Public Services Director Gerald Checco is pushing to have the policy repealed. 
• The Cincinnati City Council passed the policy in April 2013. It was intended to raise recycling rates and save money.
• To adopt the new program, taxpayers paid $4.7 million. The plan itself was estimated to save $2.5 million annually, as reported by Cincinnati.com, but the savings haven't been worth the costs: A variety of practical failures have rendered the program a resounding failure. 

Dive Insight:

After the program's passage in 2013, 90,000 residents received new 65 gallon bins. According to Cincinnati.com, some of the main reasons for the failure include: high costs of new bins, the inability of large households to fit their weekly waste into the provided cans, an increase in illegal dumping and an explosion in special trash requests — from 9,500 annual requests to 33,000. If the policy is repealed, suggestions to improve the city's waste problems include more bulk collections, higher fines for illegal dumping and letting large families use more than one bin.