Take your garbage and dump it on the mayors lawn...
Since I moved to a farm on central KY it has become easy. We don’t have trash service so I do the following:
1. Food waste is thrown into compost bin.
2. Paper, plastic and anything else that will burn is burned in our burning barrel.
3. Glass and metal are thrown into a plastic grocery bag and I take them to work with me, where I throw them in the public trash bin on the street.
I am forced to pay city income tax (I don’t live in the city) and that is the ONE service from the city I actually use. :)
This recycling thing is not only stupid, but the fact that they even CAN investigate your garbage is not about finding violations. It is about reminding you that you are under their thumb at all times. It is a quality of life thing.
And out here the quality is MUCH higher. Cities in a fascist regime steal your soul.
This is nothing.
In NYC, a landlord or his representative has to go through tenant’s garbage to make sure that the recyclables are correctly sorted. If a garbage inspector finds a can or tin foil in regular garbage, then the landlord is fined $100.00. The inspectors use metal detectors.
No one has a clue how to throw out pizza boxes because of the grease stains.
I can think of several big time liberal control freaks that would be in the stratosphere with joy if they could go through other people’s garbage and recycling.
Mr. Jones gets very upset with Mr. Smith for the way Mr. Smith has been looking at Mrs Jones so he puts some empty motor oil cans into Mr Smith’s recyclable paper bin.
Now everyone will have to install cameras to spy on their own garbage.
This is actually a racist policy. Please follow ...
In our Central Florida community, recycling is “single stream.” No longer do you have to separate glass by color, metal from glass, etc. It all goes into a single bin and is sorted out at the recycling center.
Now talk about a job to be featured by Mike Rowe! Sorting other people’s trash? Not high on the list of desirable occupations. But also not something where a previous criminal record would prove an impediment to employment. In fact, I would suspect that garbageman ... sorry, person ... is in the ex-offender’s top 5 jobs list.
hang with me ...
We all know that the criminal justice system is hopefully discriminatory and weighted against persons of color. (surely that doesn’t need a sarc tag, does it?) Well, it follows that if folks are careful about putting extraneous items in their recycle bin, there will be less volume needing sorting. And less volume means fewer labor hours required. Fewer hours, fewer jobs. What is an ex-con to do if they cannot get hired on at the recycle center??? And because chances are that ex-con is a minority, this must be an obvious racial plot to deny meaningful employment.
Racis, I tell ya! #BlackJobsMatter
Well if people stopped putting trash in recycle bins, this wouldn’t be an issue. Recycling facilities can’t handle certain things, and sending them trash can contaminate a whole bunch of stuff, or leave them with huge piles of stuff they can’t process. My roommate’s girlfriend puts my compost in the trash, and tries to recycle plastic bags covered in paint. Recyclable bottles and cans go in the trash... It’s not difficult to not be an idiot.
Seriously, it’s not difficult. Most recycling bins have a label on the top that give you a general idea for what’s recyclable and what’s not. Dallas’s Sanitation even sent out a flyer describing a bunch of stuff that isn’t recyclable. (I didn’t know our system doesn’t handle plastic bags.) Part of your waste disposal is properly disposing of waste.
I’m not big on government doing a lot of stuff, but they are the one providing the service (albeit through a contractor). You don’t need extra gov employees doing this, but it makes sense for the guys picking up recyclables to make sure that what they’re picking up is actually recyclable. And if not, leaving a note/not picking up what’s actually trash (it’s separate from recycling!) is what should be done.
We have that in my town here in Michigan.
Some a-hole will come onto your property and “survey” your bin, and potentially take it away if it isnt “good enough”.
Keep mine locked in the garage. Not like I tossing old batteries in it, but still they can go find better things to waste money on.
I find a few twenties in an envelope taped to the can lid the pickup immediately before Christmas prevents any problems of this type.
I hate that I have to bribe my garbage collector, in addition to paying for his service, but there you are.
But that would require them to turn off the TVs and computers and actually do something, so it'll never happen.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
An observation. Four or five years ago our fair city got big plastic tubs on wheels, one for trash, one for recyclables. Chances are you did too. In fact it seems that cities and towns all over the world got them. What are the odds?
It gets better. Take a good look at the front of the bin. Every one of them has a bar code. I wonder if each bar code registers a particular bin to an assigned address? Perhaps some form of electronic weighing technology on the truck to drop data into a database tracking your use?
Set rat traps inside the recyclable bin. Catch those filthy critters.
Fort Worth did this when it started it’s recycle bin enforcement program. They fined people $200 if anything not on the official list was found.
Results: everything went in the trash. The enforcement program was ended shortly.
The plan is ban communal trash bins. The State is keeping a database on the garbage of each home, NSA style, 4th Amendment be damned.
Garbage in, garbage out.
This is why I pay for all my garbage to be picked up regardless of whether I recycle or not. Every couple of weeks they get the large bag of plastic bottles.
My recycling station will open bags to see if you recycled properly and will fine you.
In his satiric novel Moscow 2042, Vladimir Voinovich wrote that true Communism would be achieved when primary matter(food) equaled secondary Matter (feces)
I’ll bet the trash police person is the same short dumpy ethnic woman in a blue uniform and carrying a tape measure, who send me a $150 ticket for my lawn having grass over 12” high (the grass was 4 inches, but 25 or 30 dandelions shot up to 14” after a heavy overnight rain.)
This is Sanitation Engineer Empowerment!