Cleveland city leaders are trying to figure out why a city waste collection crew took a resident’s recycling bin and put the bin itself in the city’s trash truck for disposal last week.
CLEVELAND — The bizarre, apparently isolated incident was captured on the resident’s home security camera.The resident’s home security video captured the city waste collection crews making their weekly rounds last Thursday in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood. The resident did not want to be identified. The video shows the crew emptying multiple trash bins into the back of the trash truck before dumping the contents of the resident’s recycling bin into the truck as well.
However, a city spokesperson told News 5 that facet of the program has not started yet, making what happened next even more perplexing. When the blue bins are eventually collected from residents that have not opted into the city’s recycling program, as many as 10,000 bins will be cleaned and stored at a city facility to serve as replacement bins. The remaining bins will be melted down and recycled, according to a contract approved by the City Council last spring.
In May, Terrell Pruitt, the director of the Division of Waste Collection and Disposal told the City Council’s Municipal Properties and Services Committee that, at the time, the city was estimating that as many as 100,000 blue recycling carts would eventually need to be collected.
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