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Sacramento deploys trash spies to snoop on homeowners so they comply with Newsom vision
NY Post ^ | 07/14/2026 | Ross O'Keefe

Posted on 07/14/2026 9:26:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Bin inspections are set to be deployed this month due to SB 1383, a law that requires local governments to take steps to reduce methane emissions caused by short-lived climate pollutants.

One of the key goals of the initiative is to see if homeowners are sorting their organic waste properly. City officials say they caught many sorting their trash into the wrong bin.

“We conducted the same reviews last June, and we found high contamination levels of, you know, issues like plastic bags in recycling, garbage in the organics,” Jesa David, a city representative, told KCRA.

No fines will be issued, but residents will receive unsolicited feedback via a tag city workers place. Workers will wear high-visibility vests and badges as they peer through residents’ garbage.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; globalwarming; globalwearmingscam; highspeedrail; nannystate

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1 posted on 07/14/2026 9:26:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Boil that frog, Newsom!...........


2 posted on 07/14/2026 9:30:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: BenLurkin

You have to be a chemist to figure out what goes where.


3 posted on 07/14/2026 9:31:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BenLurkin

“Attention all Karens!! Now hiring!”


4 posted on 07/14/2026 9:31:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

I’m glad I left CA in 2001.


5 posted on 07/14/2026 9:31:48 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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6 posted on 07/14/2026 9:32:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“City officials say they caught many sorting their trash into the wrong bin.”

We have the tiniest garbage bin they will let us get, but we have a HUGE recycling bin and a HUGE yard waste bin. So, if the garbage bin is full, I’ll look at something and think “Yes, it’s an old organic cat bed” and into the organic / yard waste bin it goes. Or “There’s some paper in that...it’s recyclable” and into the recycling bin it goes. The “transfer stations” employ armies to people to manually sort the stuff out. They can figure it out.


7 posted on 07/14/2026 9:34:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

Neighborhood Nazi is a real thing.


8 posted on 07/14/2026 9:34:17 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Garbage Gestapo, phase 1. You know fines will be coming next given the corrupt, tax starved govt. of Californication. So sad. And they continue to vote in these parasites, both in the government and the border jumpers. They deserve what they get. Please stay there, since so many of you enjoy the S-M feature of your civilization.


9 posted on 07/14/2026 9:34:26 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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10 posted on 07/14/2026 9:34:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“Sacramento deploys trash spies to snoop on homeowners so they comply with Newsom vision”. Cut back on the hair gel Gavin.


11 posted on 07/14/2026 9:36:12 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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“Sacramento deploys trash spies to snoop on homeowners so they comply with Newsom vision”. Cut back on the hair gel Gavin.


12 posted on 07/14/2026 9:36:12 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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13 posted on 07/14/2026 9:36:26 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: BenLurkin; All

San Francisco and LA are cesspools and this clown is worried about methane? You people in CA are the real idiots for hiring this dipshit.


14 posted on 07/14/2026 9:37:02 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: BenLurkin
Newt Gingrich once spoke about how the government could go about addressing the problem that children did not do their homework.

He said the answer to the problem was NOT to establish a Department of Homework Checkers.

15 posted on 07/14/2026 9:38:56 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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Clean the streets and homeless camps. Fire brush. Fill the reservoirs.


16 posted on 07/14/2026 9:39:34 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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If only we could reduce the amount of pollutants coming out of politicians’ mouths we wouldn’t have to worry about the environment getting polluted.


17 posted on 07/14/2026 9:40:17 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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18 posted on 07/14/2026 9:40:52 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I can think of a few people who would do that for free just to find anything remotely embarrassing or illegal or just have an excuse to make something up.


19 posted on 07/14/2026 9:42:39 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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Agreed. And pollutants would go way down in California without all of the illegal aliens.


20 posted on 07/14/2026 9:43:45 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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