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Cleveland Doubles Down on Mandatory Recycling
Despite criticism, all city households will have garbage bins with tracking devices by 2015
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story cited several figures relating to the number of residents in Cleveland who have already received or will receive new garbage and recycling bins. Those figures reflect the number of households, not individual residents.
When Cleveland officials announced plans last year to distribute new garbage cans affixed with bar codes and radio frequency chips so they could track the amount of recyclable material collected from residential homes, the public response was at best uneven.