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Residents here are charged $1 per 30 pounds of garbage, while recycling is free. You bet we recycle.

What Chicago taxpayers should be asking themselves about their city’s “recycling” program (and probably many others) is: Why did the city adopt a program that involves sorting garbage from recyclables after collection–which is dumb on the face of it?