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Seeing as Calgary is intending to have it's green box program in place by mid-2000, I am curious as to where other municipalities are with respect to black/blue/green bin recycling programs. Do other cities have mechanized trucks picking up their bins, trucks where there's only a driver who picks up the bins using mechanized robotic arms? Also once a home has a green bin in Calgary, then their black bin pickup will be reduced to a biweekly schedule.

And just in case, black = garbage/refuse, blue = recyclables, green = organics/compostables.

Also, I believe in some places, there are random spot checks done with respect to weights of full garbage bins, what is in a blue or black bin, etc and fines can be levied - Kelowna and Medicine Hat are two that come to mind.