CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago aldermen are calling on the city to do a better job enforcing recycling regulations for buildings with five or more units.
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson highlighted Wednesday failures by the city to monitor and enforce its recycling ordinance for bigger buildings across the city.
Ferguson told a joint City Council committee on Wednesday that Department of Streets and Sanitation ward superintendents don’t keep very good records of which buildings that have five or more units are following the city’s recycling ordinance; and said enforcement of the ordinance is "spotty at best."
Aldermen indicated they wanted the city to do better.
“The frustrations are real for me and many of my colleagues,” said 12th Ward Alderman George Cardenas, who chairs the Environmental Protection Committee.
Streets and San said it’s working to do better, although the inspector general’s 4th quarter report said the city was holding off making any changes until a consultant’s report is complete.
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Alderman Brendan Reilly, 42nd Ward, said that if the city is serious about enforcement of recycling regulations, it would need to hire more inspectors to do the job.
“To conduct inspections, you need people,” he said.