Posted on 12/08/2010 6:30:22 AM PST by massmike
That is insane, and sounds like the laws in NYC’s 5 boroughs. Thankfully here on Long Island we still have a choice.
I choose 1 bag, in 1 garbage can.
I’m just about to throw away my diet coke can. I will do it in your honor!!!
I think the key here is to (un)intentionally spill garbage on your recyclables prior to tossing them.
oops! oh, dear, I cannot now put this in the recycle bin... how EVER will they separate the garbage from the paper?
Done.
“I work with a guy that goes crazy if you throw a sheet of paper in the wastebasket.”
I would enlist some coworkers to throw away a flurry of paper until the guy blows a gasket. Maybe then the boss would dismiss such a nut.
That it's time for jury nullification of stupid laws. Don't put trash in a trash can. Then what's the trash can for?
Yes it is ... read it again. She wasn’t charged with failure to recycle. It was dumping household trash, what the warning on the receptacle said. it was the Sunday paper brought outside her apt building on Sunday on her way out to the subway.
I thought these cans were there for workers, so they could use them instead of carrying litter bags on their backs.
Are you are saying that they expect citizens to do their job and pick up litter for them, but those same citizens will fined if they put garbage in them?
This makes sense to New Yorkers?
I rarely have vivid dreams.
But I had one recently,
I suppose it was clinically a nightmare.
That guy had been made the shop steward LoL
She should move to Chicago.
They don’t recycle there.
The knee jerk reaction is to side with the fixed income granny. But this deserves a closer read.
BTW That coworker is a pleasure compared to most LoL.
“Work” is the original 4 letter word LoL
It’s an amazing social petri dish.
Actually, my "knee jerk reaction" is to NYC's crazy recycling laws!!
what constitutes “litter?” a newspaper is not considered litter?
Here is what gets me.
The city levies fines on littering, and then they throw newspapers I did not order on my lawn.
Can I get justice? from the government?
I tend to run over them with the mower and blow the discharge into the street.
Am I wrong?
Not in NYC. I know a plastic hanger is considered garbage and you will be fined if you throw it in the “plastic recycle” bin (true story).
Sounds more like stupid ass PC run amock laws to me.
OMG SHE THREW TRASH IN A TRASH CAN!!! THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!
What a bunch of econut idiots.
LOL! Yes, and may she be bit in what we conservatives call the privates, and liberals call public access!
But this was NOT a recycling violation. It was a bringing your trash outside and throwing it in a litter basket violation.
One of our summer interns started saving his recyclables to take home when I told him the cleaning crew threw it in the bin with the regular trash, and the special trashcans were only here to make people feel good. Gosh, the look on his face...but at least he didn't make a fuss, just grabbed an empty box & started saving his own.
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