Residents and business owners in some of the District’s wealthiest neighborhoods are outraged over tickets they’ve received for up to $1,000 by the city’s trash police for having a recyclable item as small as a soda can mixed in with their trash. For more than a decade, the District’s Department of Public Works inspectors have ticketed residents and businesses for mixing recyclable goods with regular trash, not picking up leaves or leaving items too large for a garbage truck on the curb. But over the past several months residents and business owners – many in downtown’s Ward 2 – say the Solid Waste Education and Enforcement Program has been hitting them harder than ever before.