Big Brother is watching!
I guess they want to drive any remaining productive citizens out, once and for all.
I say this not as a guy who wants to pooh-pooh the benefits of recycling (I do it, I think everyone should), but as one who wants to pooh-pooh the benefits of big nanny government.
The country is falling apart thanks to a bunch of marxists, and they are fining people for not sorting their garbage!
I am sure there is a money trail between some politician and the company who provides the equipment.
...I’ve got my doubts on whether this will work...snart chip or not...some folks just won’t make the effort...a while back Washington DC made a big appeal to residents to recycle...they figured the city could make millions a year by salvaging metals/plastic/cardboard...the better off neighborhoods complied...the bad neighborhoods were indifferent.
This article is complete horse$hit.
1) The “chipping” is just an RFID tag that allows the trash-truck/recycle-trucks’s computer to log a particular can to a particular issued-to address.
2) There is no way no how that any “smart-bin” can identify 10% recyclable material in a given bin. Even if each piece of recyclable trash had an RFID identifier in it, you still would need to know the weight of each empty bottle/can to calculate that.
Thus, the LIKELY method they use (deduced in spite of the idiotic article) is that the city is tracking the weight of your particular trash bin and your particular recycle bin, and penalizing you if you don’t have say 10lbs of recycled material for every 100lbs of trash-trash in the other bin.
THAT is possible.
But also stupid.
A) wedge a brick or path paver in your recycle bin to make sure it’s always above the 10% limit.
B) Be sure to run the hose on the bin after you put the newspaper in it. “A pint is a pound the world around!”
C) Put on some “Ramones” and ‘Beat your bin with a baseball bat.’ (Be sure to have multiple hits from ‘kids’ who happened to whack the RFID chip...)
Big Brother is watching!
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I don’t understand. How does a chip know what is being put in the trash can?
Also a “nice” touch about the property owner getting the citation... Bet the landlord going after his “not-green-enough” tenants is going to be fun.
In Philly, they have the equivalent of recylcing police. I’ve talked to residents, these green meter maids actually check your trashcans and have a handheld device that they can generate citations with. This is their idea of “Green jobs”, I suppose.
I cant wait for big brother to try this out here.. lol
I can assure you that overnight, the desert would be filled with trash.
Its time to start resisting this kind of garbage. I am all for recycling if its voluntary, but once they FORCE me to do it.. game on. I am not going to have my garbage monitored, enough is enough.
That’s awesome, you can load your neighbor’s trashcan with beer cans and newspapers and get them fined.
You failed.
My trash collector will accept paper, cardboard, cans, and recyclable plastic types 1 and type 2. Anything above 2 is not supposed to be recycled. Go figure.
Glad I live in the middle of no where.
This crap will only inspire people to find alternative ways to get rid of trash.
and down the drain we continue to go....