I remember a case in possibly-Washington-DC where someone was prosecuted for putting domestic waste in public bins, and they didn't accept her explanation that she was opening her mail while walking to work.

... Is this a funding stream thing rather than a recycling stream thing? So the council sends it all to the same composter but has to demonstrate to a subsidy-provider that it is only claiming for the food waste collection? (And so nobody handling the actual waste cares.)