Our favorite provider of hangovers (hi Colleen!) sent us a link to St. Pete Recycling Solutions, which makes us about 3 months late to the party, but dammit, I’m still posting it. We’ve spent plenty of time badmouthing the city’s recycling “program” (if you can call it that), and it looks like someone else decided to do what us bloggers never do - actually act on something. Greg Foster had the bright idea of turning the city’s embarrassment into a business venture, building a curbside recycling program where Mayor Greenie Baker said one couldn’t be built.

For the completely reasonable amount of $15/month, SPRS will provide you with recycling bins and actually pick that shit up from your curb on a weekly basis. This sounds so damn familiar to me, although I can’t seem to place where I might have… oh wait, this is what most real cities do when they claim they have recycling programs!

It will be interesting to see if SPRS will be able to entice enough lazy ‘burgers to pay money to have their recyclables removed. My gut says that the time-honored American tradition of lazy-assedness will just about guarantee their success. Bravo to you SPRS and Greg Foster, now let’s see what other companies we can create to fill in all the other gaps in our city government.