Less than 8 percent of household waste in the more than 122,700-household Curby area ended up recycled in the curbside program last year. That amounted to about 2 percent of Metro's waste overall.
Some question the cost
Nate Crawford told Metro not to put a Curby bin at his home before the program began.
"When I told a lady I didn't want one, she said I didn't have an option," said the Harding Place area resident, adding that he went "ballistic."
The green bin the size of a tall washing machine showed up, as it did at other homes in the city for which Metro provides trash pickup.
Crawford, who terms himself a "country boy from Lawrenceburg," never used it, and his questions about the program have only grown.
"I did not want my tax dollars spent for that. I feel the same way now when it's only being used by 37 percent of the people.
