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 ...
Germany is a global leader in recycling due to its highly organized waste separation system
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It would help if the product label said what bin to put it in.
Thank goodness that human poop is recycleable!
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EEK!
You don’t mean to put it back where it came from???
And then, your meticulously sorted trash all goes back together, either picked up in the same garbage truck, or if they do use separate pickups, it all eventually goes into the same big hole in the same dump.
Orwell is laughing.
I mean that these “friendly” inspectors deserve whatever rewards await them.
When I lived in the Bay Area, I had an epiphany at about the third dress shirt I had ruined playing with my garbage while “recycling”. It occurred to me that none of the talking heads who advocated this behavior ever, personally, did any of it.
Now that I live in Idaho, recycling finally makes sense. They only want plastic, and this massively frees up my garbage can to do real work. I don’t even have to compress the plastic bottles.
This is a mental illness - like putting locks on your front door. If you’re not careful, your place ends up looking like Agent 86’s.
the politicians want to dig through our trash
they feel it is a THOUSAND TIMES Better than
we digging through theirs.
This is Karenocracy stuff—bullying the peons because the rulers enjoy bullying.
I can think of a few Karens and their male counterparts who would gladly volunteer in order find the smallest things to make others miserable.
It looked like a nice place on Simon & Simon.
The San Diego Zoo is an amazing place.
The primates there will throw poo at any Karens who invade their space.
Lol.
In Alaska everything goes in one trash can and that goes straight to the dump. No worries about separating everything out.
They wouldn’t find anything in the city recycle bin at my house because I never use it. Recycling is stupid and a waste of time and money.
Yes first find the democrats and or liberals - then drop the battery in their trash can. I do like your suggestion.
What absolute idiocy.
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