Just days after Mayor Bloomberg announced his plan to paint New York green, the Independent Budget Office announced that prices for recycling collection are sky-high because, well, not enough people recycle. It currently costs the city $206 per ton to collect recyclables—almost $40 more than it costs to pick up the trash. Less than a month ago, the city introduced a pilot program to distribute bright blue and green bins around Manhattan and the outer boroughs in hopes that New Yorkers would recycle in the park, even if they don’t at home. The Department of Sanitation notes that as much as half of the garbage thrown in the city’s 25,000 trash bins could have been recycled. No one said it was easy being green.