Trash stories

Summit County, where Park City is located, is implementing a new and expanded recycling curbside pickup program, beginning this week and their program is totally crazy. We used to have one brown 90 gallon container for our trash and one gray 65 gallon container for the recycling; both used to be picked up once a week.

Today, they're asking us to change things around by putting the recycling in the trash container and vice-versa. They even gave us stickers to place on the containers, but if you happen to place them on the right cart (a feat in itself) they don't adhere to the plastic. To complicate things even more, our recycling will only be picked-up once every two weeks.

So this morning when we went running we could see that two-third of the neighborhood got it wrong and couldn't follow the pretty confusing instructions they received. This is pretty much what my wife had predicted would happen. Only retirees like us, who have a lot of free time available and have an IQ well-above average could make sense of the new confusing rules.

I'd be curious to see how the person who thought up that ridiculous new policy looks like...