Dive Brief:
- After complaints about vehicles driving into neighborhoods to pick through household recycling bins, law enforcement is planning on monitoring collection routes.
- Capt. Curtis Lum of the Taraval Station now has a map that will be used to survey the situation during collection times.
- Residents are asked not to approach the pickers personally but encouraged to calla hotline instead.
Dive Insight:
Most complaints come from noise and the trash generated by people rifling through the bins. Some have questioned if there was enough money to budget for the additional workers needed to monitor residential recycling.
