"About [damn] time," one commenter wrote on Mayor Whitmire's X post announcing the truck rollout. While another user attached a GIF of a trash can getting dumped out by a truck onto the street, with the caption, "Oh great, more of this."

After approving $12.4 million for the purchase of new recycling trucks in July, the city of Houston received the first nine of 31 trucks Monday, Aug. 18.