Cleaveland City, trash collection and price inversion

First we have this:

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling -- and fine them $100 if they don't.

The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.
The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.

But we also have this, from the Cleaveland FAQ on flat rate pricing.

  4) What if I don’t put my trash out every week?

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You still have to pay the monthly fee because the service is available to you

 So, in a brilliant move, Cleaveland is using technology to force people to actually use the flat rate service.  But the same technology can be used to create a variable rate service, making it more efficient.  Alas, Cleaveland officials reverse supply and demand equations.

In Fresno we have a related problem, but a little worse.  We pay a flat rate fee for garbage and water, from the monopoly city trash collectors.  Yet, the recycle price on metal and plastic is high enough that the private enterprise recyclers on foot manage to empty the recycle bins on the curb.  So, homeowners set the cart out knowing that it will be emptied.  The city monopoly picks up the empty cart in a burst of CO2 release simply because public unions control the system.  Mandated government global warming and energy waste, enforced by union police.