Wasting tax money

I am a resident of Dundonald, and for the past five weeks city employees have come by on the Wednesday of pickup and rooted through the bins on my street.

Depending on what they find, they will attach a tag that either states you do a good job or else there are mistakes in your recycling. On June 29 and July 13, my tag said “I Rock,” but the latest stated I didn’t because there was a clean Styrofoam cup in the bin.

I am not upset that I didn’t get the nice green tag, but I am angry about the misdirection of city funds. I am not sure if this is happening in all neighbourhoods in the city, but I fail to understand why my bin has been checked three pickups in a row. I don’t know how many employees checked my bin today, but on July 13 I watched three — three — workers search through it.

I take recycling seriously and wash all my plastics, tins and glass and fold my cardboard etc., and I am committed to the program. I just think this is a waste of city resources for the city to pay to print nicely coloured tags and then staff to search through my recycling three pickups in a row. Maybe they will be back again for the next pickup, too.

This is an inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars when we have streets filled with potholes and sidewalks that are crumbling. I just wish the city was so attentive to my street in the winter. I’m lucky to get a snowplow down my street once a year and some years never, even after phoning to complain that I’m getting stuck in ruts.

This is where I want my taxpayer dollars directed, not paying people to search through my recycle bin. Terry Ullman, Saskatoon