The Sanitation Department has a new truck for collection of recyclables. The new truck is equipped with hydraulic arms on each side which enables the operator to pick up the blue containers and not get out of the truck which means that only recyclables inside the blue container are collected.
Any items piled beside or outside the blue container will not be picked up. It appears at this time the garbage is collected by a three-person team – one driver and two people on the back of the truck.
The new recyclable truck should be more labor efficient, plus it avoids subjecting workers to weather, but it isn’t customer friendly if you can’t get all your recyclables in the blue container.