It is my understanding that the citizens of Sacramento passed a law in 1974 that reguired the city to provide loose in the street pick up. This "voluntary" program was someone's sneaky way to circumvent this law. I have lived in Land Park for 17 years and the pick up always went smoothly until someone hatched this hair brained idea. Citizens just need to be responsible and keep their piles neat and out of the gutters and traffic ways until they are picked up. If it is picked up weekly there are no health issues. If you have mature trees and shrubbery, cutting down your prunings to fit in a can requires 2 to 3 times the effort of being able to place prunings loose in the street. Trying to match the weekends you have time available to do yard pruning with the city's loose pick up schedule it not always possible. I would be interested in the cost benefit analysis that was conducted for the proposal to switch to containers. I estimate the cost of the containers alone at somewhere around $7 million. It also now appears the the city has also purchased new specialized yard waste trucks with front and rear bins. The only equipment partiallty eliminated was the claw and those still need to held and maintained for the scheduled loose pick up so how much cost savings could there be. I would have gladly approved several dollars in increased in yard waste collection fee if the City could demonstrate it was necessary to keep the loose pick up service running as smoothly as it did in the previous decades. The evidence I've seen so far, indicates the City made a huge mistake by adopting this program and ignored decades of evidence showing loose pick up was working adequately. They should have spent a fraction of the money educating the small number of citizens who were not following the rules for loose pick up and left the containers with whichever bureaucrats brother-in-law they bought them from.