Dive summary:

• City trash inspectors in San Francisco are going house to house and looking through residents’ garbage cans to see if anyone is not using the city recycling program properly.
• San Francisco is currently has a 80% diversion rate but the director of policy and communications for the San Francisco department of the Environment says that up to 50% of what San Francisco residents are throwing away is recyclable.
• If the inspectors find evidence that a resident is not recycling, a first time fine is issued for $100.

From the article:

With clipboards, rubber gloves and a flashlight in hand, cart inspectors hit the streets — before the trash trucks — to analyze residents' diversion habits.

"There are three of us on the morning route," said Tina Addi, who has worked as a city cart inspector since August. "We start about 4:45 a.m. because in the neighborhood that we're in, the trucks come a little earlier than they have before."