Traditional neighborhoods to get alley recycling pickup beginning in January

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman announced Monday in a video that, beginning in January, recycling will be picked up in alleys at homes where garbage is collected there. The move comes after a rocky rollout in which residents in neighborhoods where trash is collected in alleys argued it didn’t make sense to have recycling picked up at the curb. Those neighborhoods make up about 40 percent of the city’s homes and often have fenced-in front yards not conducive to rolling…