What happens when a city’s recycling program stops working?

What happens when a city’s recycling program stops working?

Teri Peterson’s recycling bin sat on the side of her quiet Houston street for one extra day. Then two. Two weeks. Four.  On June 24 — 29 days since she’d rolled out her 96-gallon bin for its biweekly pickup — she joined thousands of her neighbors across the largest city in Texas, and called Houston’s non-emergency service request number, 311. Soon, Peterson learned she and her neighbors were but one street smack in the middle of a massive recycl…