Posted on 03/09/2008 8:11:49 AM PDT by Libloather
City bans garbage disposal units
Residents of Raleigh, N.C., face stiff penalties if they install garbage disposal units in their kitchen sinks or repair existing ones if they break.
The City Council approved the ban on Wednesday, the Raleigh Chronicle reports. The ordinance includes a fine of up to $25,000 a day.
Officials said that anyone caught with an illegal disposal unit could also face a lifetime ban on getting city water. The ban covers several municipalities around Raleigh.
The garbage disposal units, which grind up leftover food and flush it into the sewer system, lead to pipes clogged with grease. That can lead to sewage overflowing into streams or ponds.
Raleigh residents are urged to collect grease in an old can or jar, allow it to harden and put it in the trash.
“City bans garbage disposal units”
“Let’s see if they can pry it from my cold, stainless steel sink!”
No. That was 60 years ago. People won't "collect grease." These fools need to solve the problem, not impose more limits.
Love all the sewage experts here /NOT who push their labor savings onto everyone else as a cost and gleefully claim it to be a constitutional right.
There is no “natural right” to use a garbage disposal that empties into a city sewer.
Hooray for the city of Raleigh — the have both right and duty to maintain the city water and sewer and set whatever regulation they view as proper to do so!
Simple fly in your ointment...these people are bound by LAW to use the sewers....if they had any property rights...they could stay off the system and run a septic tank...
BTW...denial of utilities would be a crime if you do it to your tenents...
A property without running water can be condemmed by most cities and siezed....
but ..hey...you like Govt...right?
Seems to me that the first pipes to become clogged with grease are the ones that carry the waste from the kitchen sink.
Excellent point! And ... evidently the creation of brand new "rights".
The real boneheads here are the voters of Raleigh.
As long as voters cower under a sheet to vote, who actually voted for these imbeciles is as much a secrete as the crazy aunt locked in the attic.
Get rid of the secrete ballot, and hold voters accountable, this will cause more accountability for those elected to office, and result in less bs like this ban on garbage disposers.
Running a business must be easy if you have the power of gov’t behind you.
And I have to battle its refugees swarming out of the path station, just to get to the gym in the morning. They are not a nice bunch.
I don't think we want to have this discussion. ;)
But enough about Ted Kennedy!
I have a septic system and I compost waste scraps or feed them to the chickens. That’s my method of disposal.
But, as usual, some Freepers miss the point of these conversations. This is not ABOUT garbage disposals, it’s about us slipping further and further under Government “Nanny” control, be it local, state or national.
A $25,000.00 fine? Per DAY? How utterly ridiculous. Someone in Government can’t budget... surprise...and they’re looking for a quick fix.
Actually, his comment made a lot of sense.
And believe me, I'm no fan of massholes. I was born there!
No doubt about it.
SC is the new NC in terms of creeping liberalism along the seaboard.
Amazing how we have no problem with garbage disposal detritus in my part of the country.
You don’t need a garbage disposal to pour grease down a drain...just fruits and veggies.
When garbage disposals are outlawed, only outlaws will have garbage disposals...
Besides, even though city folks are plain dimwit and delusional about anything beyond the faucet and drain, you still have the right to vote and to attend council meetings and to appoint your own goofy-headed representatives to the water and and sewer boards.
There is no "Govt" as you say, in the end, there is only "us".
My hubby remarked, “since when does one need a garbage disposal to put grease down the drain?”
You never poured skillet drippings into a tin can?
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