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San Francisco plan to inspect residents' garbage
mercury news ^
| Aug 1, 2008
| The Associated Press
Posted on 08/01/2008 4:21:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Now hear this:
According to the The Associated Press, the gay city's Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed inspecting its residents' garbage. Anyone not properly sorting their garbage will be fined. Do it again and you'll face delousing or perhaps beheading.
That is all.
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TOPICS: Announcements; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezone; environment; fascism; garbageinspectors; govwatch; mayor; nannystate; newsom; sanfrancisco; sf; trash
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To: Navy Patriot
Once you start paying the Danegelt, you never get rid of the Dane.
61
posted on
08/01/2008 5:16:55 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it.)
To: SaveTheChief
We had a nice, free country once. That we did. Once.
62
posted on
08/01/2008 5:18:31 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Impeach Obama |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: ApplegateRanch
Not sure of the rates here (not in my division of the duties — I earn the money, not spend it *\;-), but I believe yard waste (LOL — it goes into the woods) & recyclables are at least included.
63
posted on
08/01/2008 5:21:38 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Impeach Obama |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Down here, we just let all the homeless pick out all the recyclables out of our trashbins.
I got a new headline:
Mayor Gavin Newsom is starving the homeless!
To: CounterCounterCulture
Down here, we just let all the homeless pick out all the recyclables out of our trashbins. Unfortunately, in San Francisco, at times when the amount of recyclables collected from the recycle cans is too low, our fees are increased because the recycling program fails to collect enough to pay for itself.
The problem is our cans get raided every week after they are put out. It's not by homeless folks, it's by cheap people collecting them to make money. So the raiders make money, and everyone in the neighborhood has to pay more to the trash collection company.
65
posted on
08/01/2008 5:33:08 PM PDT
by
NMR Guy
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Doesn’t work for me either. Where ya been? Missed your pithy comments. You make me yearn for the wilds of Hayward, where the Indian casinos roam (and the wild Muskie eat ducks!)
66
posted on
08/01/2008 5:41:52 PM PDT
by
junkman_106
(Once is chance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action ---007/Ian Fleming)
To: NMR Guy
So the raiders make money, and everyone in the neighborhood has to pay more to the trash collection company. So cut out the middle man, and sell the crap yourself, and quit paying the company.
67
posted on
08/01/2008 5:46:27 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
To: Jim Robinson; All
I saw a TV show once that offered a better solution to the solid waste problem. The truck that collected the garbage had a special made arm which could pick up the garbage container and weight the garbage. You were billed on the weight of your garbage. There were separate containers for recyclables. For those there was no charge. This was a big incentive to segregate the throw away items from those that could be recycled. When this was implemented the volume of throw away waste declined tremendously and the volume of recyclables increased tremendously.
68
posted on
08/01/2008 5:46:36 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: truthguy
“the volume of recyclables increased tremendously”
Well, then, everything is recyclable!
No fee!
69
posted on
08/01/2008 5:53:06 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Henry Bowman is right)
To: ichabod1
you never get rid of the Dane.Unfortunately.
70
posted on
08/01/2008 6:16:18 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
To: Argus
I sure hope the wear hazmat suits. Can you just imagine the disease infested garbage produced by the scum that lives in San Francisco?
71
posted on
08/01/2008 6:20:25 PM PDT
by
mimaw
To: Jim Robinson
“Thou shalt separate zee recyclables from zee trash. Verstehen?”
To: Jim Robinson
because inspecting for ILLEGAL ALIENS is too much like work...
73
posted on
08/01/2008 6:27:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
To: Jim Robinson
Being as SF is a “sanctuary-latex-free city”, ain’t nobody gonna find too many recyclable scumbags — er, um — used condominiums, or whatever those gadgets are called.
74
posted on
08/01/2008 6:29:34 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: Jim Robinson
I live in a County in North Georgia. USofA. I'm about to tell you something that will cause some of you to get a bad headache. In my County, if "someone" reports to the Dept of Family and Children Service that you have an "unkempt" child, a DFCS Child Protective Service Worker can enter your house and inspect it. Definition of "unkempt" child is "normal five year old."
Your child or children can be removed if: 1) your toilet bowl has a ring, or 2) you have dirty dishes in the sink, or 3) you have clean dishes in the drainer tray which haven't been put away, or 4) your grass hasn't been mowed. I am not making this up.
Nanny State is not only in California, it's anywhere a person or an agency has too much power and no common sense oversight.
And I do hope that Georgia's Governor Perdue is NOT on McCain's short list.
75
posted on
08/01/2008 6:45:13 PM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(I'm voting for J.S.McCain because he's the Token White Male on the Ballot.)
To: big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; honolulugal; ...
This fall right in line with my energy plan...
to imprison all those without the correct air pressure in their tires.
76
posted on
08/01/2008 7:12:53 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Jim Robinson
You would have to wonder who would accept a job as a trash inspector in San Francisco? Getting into the refuse of a depraved place like that would be asking for a plague: any plague; every plague.
To: Jim Robinson
Yet illegals have sanctuary
78
posted on
08/01/2008 7:15:08 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi mom)
To: Jim Robinson
It's been proposed here in Key West as well ... figures
.
79
posted on
08/01/2008 7:15:46 PM PDT
by
Elle Bee
To: Jim Robinson
Mandatory recycling coming
BY MANDY BOLEN
Key West Citizen Staff
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
One of these will no longer be optional in Key West, where officials are drafting a law that makes residential recycling mandatory within the city.
Public Works Director R.B. Havens said Monday the proposal is still in draft form, and thus not a public record. But he said the city will hold a public forum about the program before the proposal goes before the Key West City Commission for discussion and vote.
Current recycling levels in Key West are at a dismal 7.4 percent.
That all could change in the coming months with the implementation of mandatory recycling.
In the draft proposal, garbage collectors would be instructed not to pick up any garbage bag or other container that is found to contain recyclable material. Or, if a collector hears bottles rattling inside a garbage bag, he would tag the bag and leave it on the curb, Havens said.
If the violation was not remedied by the next trash collection day, the matter could be turned over to the city's Code Compliance office for possible fines and penalties.
Havens said his department wants public input on the fines and penalty section of the ordinance.
He also supports issuing each household a much larger recycle bin that would allow residents to place all recyclables in one bin without separating them.
Such a program would make participation much easier for residents, he said.
Annalise Mannix, director of Environmental Programs, pointed out in an e-mail to Havens that residents could simply buy themselves a larger bin for $8 and use it for recyclables, while reserving the provided 14-gallon bin for paper recycling.
Providing the larger, but more convenient bins would cost money during a tight budget year, so the details of the program remain to be seen.
Havens also will tackle the questions expected to arise from multi-family apartment buildings, as garbage collectors would have no way to determine who within a complex is not recycling.
"There's a lot to work out, and the proposal likely will not be ready for public discussion until the middle or end of August," he said.
Published on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Key West Citizen & Bait Wrapper
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posted on
08/01/2008 7:22:44 PM PDT
by
Elle Bee
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