Salt Lake City’s ‘recycling police’ poke, prod and even sniff what’s in your blue bin to keep the garbage out

On a recent Thursday morning, Jennifer Farrell opens the lid of a blue recycling bin in Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood and pokes her head in.
It’s heavy — filled to the brim with some recyclables but also with tarp and vinyl.
“We’re probably going to have to tag this,” she says and begins writing a note on a bright yellow form that she then staples to the bin. “You can see the rest of their recyclables are clean. They probably just don’t know, honestly.”
Farrell, the waste and educat…

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