The site also says:
"What happens if I don't pay the fee?
Payment of the fee for the first year is REQUIRED.
If not paid, the fee would be subject to the normal delinquency process of your waste hauler."

The on line form asks for your e-mail address, but you do NOT have to give that to them.
Just makes it easier for them to send you more unwanted communication!
To opt out for next year, you will need info about your garbage acct, number which is on the spinner near the address, or on your bill.

GIGO-
Garbage In, Garbage Out:
The spinner says it is "recyclable", so I guess it doesn't go into the garbage?

Thanks for the heads up...I never received any notice of this 'program'. I just opted out, using their website. What a scam...

They use the fee to create a hardstock cardboard mailer sent to every garbage collection account. What percentage of these reports will go into the garbage instead of the recyclable container? The irony is laughable. I've opted out.

STOP the insanity !!! Let's hope it's not too late. The last thing we need is another Bureaucracy full of zealot activists turned bureaucrats, next they're entitled to stipends, perdiem, etc. then it's salary, then it's retirements. NO! NO! NO! All if we give them the right to snoop in our garbage cans.
I'll happily do my own sorting IF, they would just give us a list, (maybe every January)on practical explanations like hard bottle caps??? with no markings altho bottle has the triangle....just wondering?. And on potted
mums, for example that after 2 months don't look so great, foil paper, dirt, greenery go in 3 different containers. How to separate pieces of items...the breakdown. So if this gestapo team finds something don't cart us away if we don't know particular details, which are not included on the short 'general' classifications. One bite out of a jar with metal screw lid...am I expected to dump the food and wash the jar, or just throw in garbage??
We don't need snoopers, and we certainly do NOT need police enforcers, and sure as XXXX don't need to EVER in the future need to create more payroll positions !!!! I saw that 'payment' info on the card....funny, out of the several possibilities where they might 'USE' the money, reduction of our subscriber fees was NOT one of the options. STOP the insanity.!!!!

Not saying these bureaucrats are creeps - just that they are yet another unneeded bureaucracy, adding unneeded expenses to your bills and to the cost basic services:

In May of 2013 the Livermore Council declined to join Stopwaste, saying:
From:
Web Link

"COUNTY ENERGY COMMITTEE
The council joined other Valley cities in declining to join the Stopwaste.org energy committee.
Laureen Turner noted that concerns include "mission creep," with Stopwaste expanding its areas of focus, and weighted voting that could result in loss of local control. Three cities and the county would have enough votes to approve any requested action."

Apparently Stopwaste has so much of your money and so little to do that they are offering to give it away.

An article in the 1/31/14 PW says:
Web Link

They are looking to give away money they are taking from your Garbage bills.
"Grants typically range between $25,000 and $65,000."

I don't want to pay for their "Benchmark Service", much less for grants to expand their bureaucracy.
And I sure do not want them trying to pass more restrictive laws and policies, much less pay them to do that.

IF you haven't already, go up to the earlier posts, read and opt out! The money you save is your own!

Thank you for those web links...it seems to be pretty much unanimous. Reducing our rates would be a grand idea. However, that was not an option.
Opt out. Spread the word to Opt Out. Tell them don't try again with this plan. I fear we in the tri-valley may just get spit on anyway. Thinking is different on government in your life, and worst of all forming groups of government workers who know zero about life on the outside...out in the real world. No, No, No more. stop the insanity. enough is enough, actually way too much..

Thank you for those web links...it seems to be pretty much unanimous. Reducing our rates would be a grand idea. However, that was not an option.
Opt out. Spread the word to Opt Out. Tell them don't try again with this plan. I fear we in the tri-valley may just get spit on anyway. Thinking is different on government in your life, and worst of all forming groups of government workers who know zero about life on the outside...out in the real world. No, No, No more. stop the insanity. enough is enough, actually way too much..