City gives cash rewards to citizens for recycling

Nine local businesses, four schools and two apartment complexes received cash awards totaling $12,500 for success in recycling last year.

[ya girl]

if the city is bankrupt,why give out money to folks cus they recycle,that's just dumb

[ya girl]

if vallejo is filed for bnkruptsy and they have limited funds,why give out money to folks for recycling,how dumb!

[USC1]

Napa is bankrupt?

[John DiCoquereau]

This reminds me of a system of rewards in the Federal Government, in which people came to expect rewards just for doing their jobs, the fact that they had a job with performance standards became lost in the expectation of rewards for meeting those standards.