How Denver’s trash, recycling and compost system works: They’d rather teach you than fine you

Sean Brown has lived in cities where the trash and recycling police had extremely itchy pen fingers when it came to writing violations.

Couple of paper bakery bags mixed in with the vegetable peel compost? Useless loose plastic wrap tossed into the recyclables with the valuable aluminum cans?

That’ll be 100 bucks, and don’t bother complaining at City Hall…

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