I live in a rental apartment building in Brooklyn. There are bins outside for recycling. As tenants, we are required to separate our trash from recyclables. The landlord has a few workers who "prepare" the garbage for pickup. They go through the trash, separating and recyclables that don't belong, and they wash them.
Is this legal? Trash is ing. My trash consists of egg shells, coffee grinds, uneaten cat food, rotten food from the fridge and wet cigarette butts. If I have an infected wound, the old bandage is going in there as well. Should someone really be sorting through that filth with nothing but rubber gloves?
I get really depressed when I see them going through the trash. Life is hard and definitely not fair, should people have to sift through biohazard to pay the bills?