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[fancytalk]

I think that I may actually be able to put an end to one of the recycling poachers, I got a license plate this morning. Ronette had just driven off and I was walking out to pull the garbage bin back behind the house when I noticed the little Asian lady going through the paper recycling. Then I see her open the back door of a car parked in front of the house. I grabbed pen and paper, walked outside to the end of my driveway in front of the car and started writing down the plate number. The driver realized what I was doing and drove off but not before I had the plate number. I'm feeling a little victorious. I called the poaching hotline and apparently she has been fined already. Yay me!

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[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, why do you object to the poachers? I don't mind them as long as they wait until I put the recyclables out (as opposed to going back behind the building and getting them), which so far, they have been.

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

Pure and simple, money and Berkeley property taxes. My understanding is that Berkeley uses the funds they get by collecting recycling to keep the cost of trash and recycling collection down, which is a hefty portion of my property tax each year not including the $125/quarter that I pay for Berkeley to collect it. Yes, I could take it to the recycling place myself and get the money for my recycling. However, I'm lazy and have no where to store enough recycling to make it worth it. I don't mind the shopping cart poachers, they don't take much and pretty much limit what they take to soda cans and small bottles. It's the poachers who drive down the road on recycling day and empty the bins on the entire block. The worst is the man and his wife team with the truck who come by the night before and the morning of recycling. I'm not sure how big of an area they cover, but by the time they get to my house there isn't much room left in the truck.