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This stupidity extends to several levels. First, let’s look at the practical implications of such a regulatory regime. Trash collection requires efficient use of vehicles and personnel. If sanitation workers have to stop and inspect every barrel and dumpster for compliance, it will make the entire process much more labor intensive and require an expansion of collection vehicles. Not only would the cost be prohibitive, but the increase in idling vehicles waiting for inspections to end before moving to the next stop would actually make emissions even worse than before.

Next, how does one enforce compliance in multi-tenant dwellings? Apartments and condos usually use communal dumpsters rather than individual barrels, again for efficiency. If the garbage is unsorted, who gets fined — the tenants or the landlords? Neither one could be proven responsible for the misdemeanor in court. If landlords risk fines and suspension of service because of tenant behavior they cannot possibly control, or even trace, then expect property values to take a dive while people sell of their assets in real estate.