DC Resident Fined Thousands For Not Recycling Cat Litter

Fox 5 - Washington D.C. ^ | December 13, 2011 | Matt Ackland

[blackpacific]

That would be “entrapment”. :)

[Slings and Arrows]

[Nailbiter]

bfl

[Morgana]

I was thinking the same thing!!!

[gleeaikin]

I am told that in DC you are not supposed to recycle pizza boxes because of the food particles stuck to the cardboard. Why would they want cat litter in the recycle bins. Oh, I get it, rats eat pizza, but run away from cat waste.

[exDemMom]

That’s ridiculous. I can guarantee that no one working at a recycling center wants to deal with paper soaked in cat urine or mixed with cat feces. Nor is this type of paper recyclable, since materials contaminated with biological waste are NOT recyclable (even if sterilized).

So what if the woman wants to save a few bucks by shredding paper to use as cat litter? If her cats will use it, fantastic. It’s expensive enough to live in DC as it is.

[Truth29]

So the inspector digs through the trash; just think of the inventive minds working on what can be put in the trash waiting for inquiring hands.

[beef]

In general, recycling is more about indoctrination than anything else. A daily ritual that reinforces the religion of deep ecology. In this particular case, though, I think we have a bureaucrat who WILL be obeyed.

[CPOSharky]

...the inspector admitted to digging through trash looking for violations.

Since this inspector has nothing to do but dig through trash, perhaps his job description should include sorting the trash. After all, the homeowner is paying the inspector's wages and should get something of value for his "work."

[onemiddleamerican]

She is recycling the newspaper, just not in a manner approved by the DC bureaucrat in charge of recycling rules and regs.

You get what you vote for, sister.

[TheOldLady]

A set bear trap can get you in a lot of trouble. Try loose broken glass mixed in with your refuse instead.

[BenLurkin]

Insanity.

[TheOldLady]

Recycling is voluntary here, and we carry our cardboard, newspapers, and other recyclables downtown to the giant bins they have there.

We're sure happy that we bought that pick-up truck.

[BenLurkin]

Not your own trash. The recycle Nazi must go through 1,000 bins in a night. Give him(or her) a special thnk you in front of somebody else’s dumpster.

[ßuddaßudd]

Soon they will make you rent a pet waste bin to set on the curb...

[ßuddaßudd]

Soon they will make you rent a pet waste bin to set on the curb...

[NoGrayZone]

The 5 boroughs of NYC do the same thing. My mother used to live in the Bronx and her niece was fined for putting a plastic hanger in the “plastic recycle” bin....reason, that PLASTIC hanger was garbage!!!

[NoGrayZone]

The 5 boroughs of NYC do the same thing. My mother used to live in the Bronx and her niece was fined for putting a plastic hanger in the “plastic recycle” bin....reason, that PLASTIC hanger was garbage!!!

[gnickgnack2]

“DPW recycling investigators are looking for evidence of co-mingling of trash with recyclables.”

It would seem to me that the biological wastes are NOT recyclable, yet the DC environazi wants her to comingle trash with recyclables. So no matter what she does, she can be fined.

Wonder what she did in the past to earn this regulator’s ire!

[NoGrayZone]

"Wonder what she did in the past to earn this regulator’s ire!"

It seems to me, once they find you have "broken the rule" once, they figure you'll do it again, so they will continually search through your garbage.

That's how it works in NYC anyway.