Posted on 11/08/2025 9:28:45 AM PST by simpson96
They're from the government, and they're here to help:
'Friendly' San Diego city officials are set to send teams of inspectors to dig through people's trash cans looking for recycling violations.
Nicely, of course.
They plan to issue 'oops' citations to scofflaws who throw the wrong stuff in the wrong trash bins.
In San Diego, we put trash in one of three bins -- generic trash (black can), recycle trash (blue can), and organic trash such as food scraps and lawn clippings (green bin.) (snip)
Oh, it's not because they want to go through our trash, they say.
Ostensibly, it's a safety concern -- some people are throwing batteries into the bins and some of the trucks are blowing up, which does sound like a serious problem, if true.
Do they do inspections after they find a battery or before? How could they stop a trash-truck fire unless it's pre-emptive, making every resident a suspect?
The video didn't say.
But is digging through every trash can the answer? What if they find other stuff they disapprove of? What if they would like to tell a neighbor of his affair with the other neighbor's wife, too? What if city officials would really like to go through a political opponent's trash under the pretext of searching for battery scofflaws?
We should just trust them, you see.
And in a blue city that's already bankrupt, are they really going to be able to do that effectively in a city of 1.4 million? How can they be sure they'll get the right violator?
Aren't there better ways to trace violations than mass inspections of cans? Cameras?
How will they prove who did what?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s not about the planet or the climate; it’s all about money. Any penalties assessed are just more in the way of higher taxes. Keep in mind that Mayor todd gloria is one of the worst mayors ever and therefore has only one policy lens for viewing: Taxes.
‘Friendly’
It always starts that way, doesn’t it.
Indeed.
I guess San Diego doesn’t have a homeless problem. Might as well spend the tax payers money on something “useful”
Pathetic
The right violators will white.
“Aren’t there better ways to trace violations than mass inspections of cans?“
That is the wrong question. What is wrong with these people that they elect a government so oppressive that they would enact laws governing which container you sort your garbage into.
“Aren’t there better ways to trace violations than mass inspections of cans?“
That is the wrong question. What is wrong with these people that they elect a government so oppressive that they would enact laws governing which container you sort your garbage into.
Very.
The turning of San Diego from a solidly conservative city (the county was carried by Goldwater in 1964) to just another liberal hellhole, albeit with better weather than Baltimore or Chicago, is a stark warning to Americans everywhere. Liberalism is not only a mental illness; it is a deadly poison to prosperity, human freedom, and decency.
Or create robots with sensors to dig thru the trash to recover recyclable materials, which would dramatically reduce the human time and effort to recycle trash. If $$$$ still matters, that is ...
Once your trash hits the curb, it no longer belongs to you. Ask any cop. Anybody could have put trash in your trash can.
They need something to do since they’ve solved the crime problem.
“The right violators will white.”
A friend who is now a citizen had multiple huge code violations on his property. He’d built a bungalow for his mother-in-law in his side yard. No plumbing. The electric was an extension cord. He had two travel trailers with family living in them and the septic running in a pipe to the back yard. All this in an R1 setting. A code inspector showed up. He played the “don’t speak English I’m from Guatemala and here illegally game.” The inspector left and never came back.
Codes, laws, rules, etc. are only for white middleclass people.
Fill the cans with snakes.
They used to call San Diego “America’s Finest City”. We left there in 2002 after living there for 12 years. It was going to hell then.
It could be fun driving up and down San Diego streets dropping one small battery in each recycle bin.
That might get the natives to start being revolting.
Lol.
I thought the recycling Wars ended?
I’ve been to the depot and have witnessed both garbage and recyclables dumped into the same compacting pit. More than once.
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