Silent truce? Bureaucrats, especially totalitarian minded ones like Rodney Watkins don't give up easily.. Since when did we give this small minded fan of Kim Jong-un the right to say what 'wasted food' is?
LOL...if they wanted to poke through my trash, I could make that far more interesting to them...:)
Seattle is probably one of those places- you choose to olive there, you probably belong there.
Absence of a red tag means you are a mindless sheep who would do anything the government says. Compost my coffee grounds? Why, I would love to, sir! Take the Jews to the gas chamber? Jah vol main herr!
oh, wait
When I was young and dumb, my village made a rule that all garbage bags must be clear, see through plastic. Rationale now explained.
Older and wise now.
Solution? Compost on the City Hall Steps
So, sink garbage disposal units will be working overtime.
“So too is allowing it to sit out in the open, where it produces methane, one of the most harmful greenhouses gases, as it rots.
Um, doesn’t composting it do basically the same thing? Decomposing bacteria is decomposing bacteria, in a trash can or a compost heap.
“The second largest component of landfills in the United States is organic waste, and landfills are the single largest source of methane gas.”
And many landfills harvest that gas to provide energy for the landfill and nearby areas. (Learned that one on Penn and Tellers’ show “Bullbleep!”)
I’d be a slinging me some trash at some public officials houses. Better yet embarrass the Iron Fisted Tyrants even more by just taking it out and dumping it in the streets somewhere. Let them guess where it all came from.
"Yeah, I'm in waste management."
So, instead of telling your Kids to take out the Trash, hand them a Shovel and tell them to go bury it.
I’ve composed and deleted three replies and all of them would land me in..... deep, cold, coastal waters, down deep where the crab feed.
Wow, the Nazis would be so proud to see their statist big government ideology thriving.
f**k em. i refuse to recycle. i pay for refuse service. they get it all in one container.
That would make me want to put a permanent red sign on my garbage can.
They disregard the impact of the pollution generated by the big machinery used to process the material, they ignore the pollution created by people driving out to the landfill to purchase the compost.
If the waste were buried in the landfill it would generate more methane which is recovered via an extensive piping system connected to electrical generators.
Additionally, adding food waste to the compost does not make for a superior compost. How would you like spreading compost in your garden only to find chicken or beef bones showing through the surface? Bones do not compost well. And even worse the food waste attracts “vectors” (rats, raccoons, skunks and other vermin, leading to potential public health problems (Bubonic Plague anyone?). Food waste buried in the landfill is covered every night, keeping the infectious pests out of the food source.
But what do we know about any of this? The Eco-Fascist religion knows better and forces their superior knowledge down our throats through stupid ordinances like this.
What incredible irony, that such authoritarian...indeed borderline totalitarian people can still call themselves “liberal.”
I remember the episode of WKRP where one of the dj’s told the people to protest the garbage workers strike by dumping their garbage on the city hall steps. Sounds like we need to do that again.
Mr. Goodnesswins says...”I’d s**t in my garbage can...a lot”
I’d be happy to donate our weekly load of cat manure and used cat litter to have some bureaucrat rifle through.