Big Brother Is Green?

Washington Examiner:

"Alexandria residents soon will have to pay for larger home recycling bins featuring built-in monitoring devices.

The City Council added a mandatory $9 charge to its residents' annual waste collection fee.

That cash -- roughly $180,000 collected from 19,000 residents-- will pay for new larger recycling carts equipped with computer microchips, which will allow the city to keep tabs on its bins and track resident participation in the city's recycling program.

'If you know who's participating in the programs, you can focus your education and outreach to those who are not participating,' said Stacy Herring, Alexandria's recycling coordinator."

I suppose this is just like our parents when we were kids -- our paternal governors are just making sure we take out the trash, eh?