San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot

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San Diego has completed the deployment of over 230,000 RFID-tagged waste bins as part of a 750,000-unit replacement project aimed at automating billing and eligibility verification. Despite the massive scale of the hardware rollout, truck-based reader integration remains in the pilot phase with key technical specifications and suppliers still undisclosed. This gap highlights a common implementation challenge where large-scale physical tag deployment outpaces the operational r