I might take a trip to San Fran just to sneak through neighborhoods, putting the wrong stuff in their bins.
They need to put their elected officials in the back of the garbage trucks and press the pack button.
Some of my neighbors still sort the plastics, green glass, paper, etc. I watched the truck - all that crap goes into one bin. They almost have to pay someone to take the paper these days, and it’s one thing that will naturally decompose.
My parents live in West CCC. They vote D. Going to have to ask them about this. I’m sure they’ll love it.
Another in a long, long list of reasons not to live in CA.
My wife has relatives in Germany where you can be fined for failure to recycle and incorrect recycling, ie, plastic in the paper bins, etc. They have people who inspect and police such things.
Now it turns out that they figured that "somebody" would be a chinese serf. Go figure, enlightened Californians getting a twofer: supporting slave labor and not recycling all at the same time.
It all goes to the same city dump.
The market for recyclable material has collapsed, and the dirty secret is cities can’t sell it, so they’re dumping it in with the trash into the landfill.
And still giving you a tax (ahem, “ticket”) for failing to do that which is now useless.
They’re concerned about what goes where in a recycling bin, but suddenly lose all that concern for the environment when tons of human feces get hosed off the streets into the drainage systems.
The real problem is, many things aren’t economical to recycle. People want to believe that they are, but it’s not the case.
They would pick thise items up for free, for starters. Another big no-no is incineration. It is a very effective way to get rid of certain wastes. But it’s just not part of the image.
What’s the “carbon footprint” of thousands of trucks driving around picking up garbage out of different colored bins and shipping it off to China by boat?
Just like a lot of San Franciscans take a dump on the sidewalk. :) I mean, really?
Why not flogged and jailed?
China had been burning our ‘recycles’ for energy. They no longer need the energy, nor the pollution.
Well, it has not come that down here. I just look at it as an extra trash can anything remotely recyclable goes in. It all get dumped in the western Pacific anyways.
So, yes they want you to continue to sort your trash, even though it all goes to the same landfill. It is control of behavior, not resources, that they are after.
Keep voting Democrat, Democrats!
Their set of values is not like that of the normal, sane person.
I see from their website that they have two locations out there in Commiefornia land. Maybe Gov. Moonbeam and his successor should push for more of them to be built as a means to solve both CA's power problems and their waste disposal issue.
But of course since these are power plants and the very thought of a power plant is anathema to the Comiefornia Libs, I don't expect that they will consider that even when summer heat brings another round of rolling blackouts..
When I was very little in Long Beach, Cal, there was a garbage truck that picked up garbage (you could smell it a block away) and a trash truck. In the 60s Sam Yorty of LA wanted to institute a plan where people would have to sort their trash. It cost him his office it was so unpopular. Now it seems like they want people to sort their trash, under threat of fine/penalty even though it is now all going to the same dump. The common theme seems to be, “We are going to make you do things for your own good” (even if it is pointless).
On Long Island where I am, it used to be paper recyclables one week, glass/aluminum/plastic the next.
This year, we switched to paper/glass/aluminum/plastic all in one shot.
Next year, we’re back to paper one week, aluminum/plastic the next. Glass will only be accepted if you bring it to the town yourself.