Undercover video shows city dumping recyclable trash carts: “We take them to the dump” says Denver worker
When the City of Denver began charging residents for trash collection in January, roughly 30,000 people traded in their larger plastic trash carts for smaller ones to save money on their monthly trash bills. Smaller carts incur smaller monthly fees, larger carts cost more.
But a CBS News Colorado investigation has found that at least 3,000 of those carts — which the manufacturers say are fully recyclable — were crushed and then dumped in an area landfill by the City of Denver.
“It’s irrational not to recycle these carts,” said Denver resident Carol Lehr. “That’s the whole idea, right?”
