Dive summary:
- Residents are blaming a new system in Portland, Ore. which reduces the frequency of trash collection for the new string of dirty diapers that end up in recycling bins.
- Before, waste collectors say they found about one dirty diaper every month in the bins; now, it's up to 60 pounds per shift.
- Recycling and composting are still picked up weekly where trash is now biweekly, giving residents incentive to toss the smell things out to the first person to take them.
From the article:
"It started when the city went to every other week garbage pickup," Far West Fibers President Keith Ristau tells . "Prior to that you'd get a dirty diaper maybe once a month. Now we get 60 pounds per shift. It's not pretty."
The imposing poundage is actually a drop from the 90 pounds of dirty diapers that landed at Far West's processing center shortly after Portland decided to encourage its citizens to recycle and compost household waste rather than send it to the landfill. ...