Cleveland Recycling Program

Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell, faced with a fiscal crisis, stated that all curbside recycling would be eliminated to save money. Between that announcement and now, she has modified her plan to leave 14 curbside pickup stations in operation. Yesterday, she found a hat with a rabbit in it. SHAZAM! Sometime in January, 21 new recycling pickup stations will be placed into operation.

It seems the better angels of her political nature improved her eyesight. She was able to see a festering Greenie protest recrudescing.

What's interesting about this obvious bait and switch is that the city will pay for the recycling by taking the profits made from the commercial collection section, which picks up garbage from businesses. So, in a nutshell, the city is going to gouge businesses in normal commercial trash fees and use the money to pay for the expensive recycling program that doesn't pay for itself.

So, instead of taxing the public to pay for the money-hungry recycling program, the city has decided to use jacked up commercial garbage fees as their revenue source. So much for being a business-friendly city.

It's just this kind of fiscal sleight-of-hand that encourages businesses to relocate in cities other than Cleveland. It also begs the question as to what other money-losing schemes are being paid for by creative accounting and the profits from hauling trash.