Thank you, Candace, for posting this! Everybody needs to read this.
This is what happened at our house a few months ago:
On trashday, regular trash gets picked up first, then the recycling truck arrives a few minutes later.
Lately, the empty recycling bin has been placed on top of the empty trash toter. I thought this was strange, until we figured out what happened:
It was a signal from the trash guys that the recycling crew didn't have to stop, BECAUSE THE TRASH GUYS DUMPED THE RECYCABLES INTO THEIR TRUCK!!! (capital letters because I was fuming).
We got proof of this by taping it. Then we called their supervisor. It took several calls before this got resolved.
Otherwise we would have taken the tape to our local TV station. Maybe we should have anyway.
They are probably still doing it at other stops on their route...