Dump all your garbage here at the Seattle City Trash Center.
Posted on 01/28/2015 10:12:24 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
Seattle to Fine Residents for Throwing Food in the Garbage
In an attempt to shame residents of their city, a new Seattle law will levy a fine on homes that do not properly sort food out of their garbage.
Emblazoned with a red citation tag, violators will start to be fined anywhere from $1-$50 in July. For now, Seattle residents will be publicly shamed by the ‘Scarlet Letter’-like tags.
US Food Waste Food waste is a big, and still growing, problem. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo) "I'm sure neighbors are going to see these on their other neighbors' cans," says Rodney Watkins, a lead driver for Recology CleanScapes, a waste contractor for the city. He's on the front lines of enforcing these rules.
The tags are part of, what the city calls, a “public education campaign.”
In an interview with NPR, Watkins details how he goes about enforcing the draconian statute:
"You can see all the oranges and coffee grounds," he says, raising one lid.” All that makes great compost. You can put that in your compost bin and buy it back next year in a bag and put it in your garden."
The ultimate goal of the law is to boost composting while reducing greenhouse gasses:
Food waste is both an economic and environmental burden. Transporting the waste, especially for distances as far as Seattle does, is costly. So too is allowing it to sit out in the open, where it produces methane, one of the most harmful greenhouses gases, as it rots. The second largest component of landfills in the United States is organic waste, and landfills are the single largest source of methane gas.
The EPA has already begun a campaign to achieve laws similar to Seattle’s.
The outstanding question remains: what purview is it of government to act as people’s trash nanny?
Three cans here in LaLaLand. One for garbage, one for recyclables and one for lawn trimmings and waste.
Even though the cans say, “Property of the City of Los Angeles” on them, they nonetheless turn some of our more industrious bums into recycling, uh...entrepreneurs.
We are experiencing this same BS here in Victoria, Canada. I damn well refuse to collect my food waste and am throwing it in the trash anyways. We tried this voluntarily on our own years ago as something to add to our compost. The result? Rats and fruit flies. I have had rats in my past 3 houses and they are a pain in the ass to get rid of. I am not exposing my home to rats again.
They have put the private trash collectors in a hard place. They private firms have to serve the needs of customers but are also being forced to somehow make customers comply with these new rules.
The late great actor George Rose had a baby kangaroo. After his murder, when the cops opened the door of his NYC apartment - boy, were they in for a surprise!
Yep, can't do worm composting with any animal products or greasy stuff although egg shells are work well, crushed up that is. But you can compost all your vegetable and fruit and grain waste via worms. Coffee grounds and filters and teabags (sans staples) and newspapers can all be composted via red wiggler worms.
“There was a family in NYC that was raising chickens in their trendy, Chelsea apartment.”
Those chickens are probably cleaner than some people’s kids. I hated apartment living.
The only way any sense can be made of pretty much anything the libtards do, is remember that they’re simply not sane.
The founding generation's chosen phrase to describe governments for protecting the "unalienable" and "Creator" endowed rights, was those "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" individuals. In such a society, individuals might pursue happiness, under laws which protected the rights of themselves and other individuals.
The "Left" (progressive regressives) have an opposite idea about the role of government.
Example: The President loves to use the word "shared" to describe his vision.
Using a commonly friendly word like "shared" to describe a government policy of force and coercion is despicable on its face. Then, again, isn't that descriptive of how all totalitarian regimes initially present themselves in order to gain power?
In the course of his research for "Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile" (Harper Collins), Joseph Pearch traveled to Moscow to interview the writer. The excerpt below is from that interview:
Solzhenitsyn: "In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology." The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion." Solzhenitsyn
Even the current President, at a National Prayer Breakfast, attempted to tie his policy of forced "sharing" to Jesus's appeal for voluntary charity.
Coercive "taking" power, when wielded against the citizenry by either the government alone (taxing), or in combination with another power (that of state or municipal), is destructive of freedom and prosperity.
The following statement by Sir Winston Churchill, upon leaving office as Prime Minister in 1945, was prophetic for Great Britain, and as it turns out, the United States and the world:
"I do not believe in the power of the State to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous are the committees they set up or the ever-growing hordes of officials they employ or the severity of the punishments they inflict or threaten, they can't approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise. Personal initiative, competitive selection, and profit motive corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society. It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the doctrines and policies of the socialist government has destroyed. Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the main spring and until we get a new one, the watch wil not go. Set the people free. Get out of the way and let them make the best of themselves. I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing society--instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance--has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead."
In the early days of America's experiment in liberty, its Founders warned of oppressive use of power by those elected to represent the people. Under their "People's" Constitution, it was the people who were left free, and the government was to be limited.
While Europe struggled with oppressive government intervention, the genius Founders of America recognized enduring truths about human nature, the human tendency to abuse power, and the possibilities of liberty for individuals. Richard Frothingham's 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States," Page 14, contained the following footnote item on the condition of citizens of France:
"Footnote 1. M. de Champagny (Dublin Review, April, 1868) says of France, 'We were and are unable to go from Paris to Neuilly; or dine more than twenty together; or have in our portmanteau three copies of the same tract; or lend a book to a friend: or put a patch of mortar on our own house, if it stands in the street; or kill a partridge; or plant a tree near the road-side; or take coal out of our own land: or teach three or four children to read, . .. without permission from the civil government.'"
Clearly the government of France at that 1868 date laid an oppressive regulatory and tax burden on citizens, robbing them of their Creator-endowed liberty and enjoyment thereof. Frothingham observed that such coercive power constituted "a noble form robbed of its lifegiving spirit."
Thomas Jefferson warned Americans:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
Note Jefferson's very last thought here. He declares that when government taxing and debt have reached certain levels, in order for individuals to survive, then their chosen "employment" becomes "hiring ourselves to rivet their (the government's) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." Might that account for the large government bureaucracies which oppress "the People" today? Might those paid municipal workers who will make their livelihood from inspecting the people's garbage and those doling out penalties and fees for violations fall into Jefferson's category of those who will "rivet chains"?
Inasmuch as government creates no wealth and has no money, the pay for every job in government must first come out of the pockets of hardworking citizens in the private sector or be borrowed (to be paid back eventually from the pockets of future generations).
Ahhh, guess that's what you call "redistributing" wealth! In Jefferson's words, it's called "rivet(ing) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
where i live we just throw it out in the yard,it won’t be there long,something will eat it.
Dump all your garbage here at the Seattle City Trash Center.
black plastic bags will be (have been?) outlawed
Is this satire?? If not what I would do is purchase a bunch of orange stickers and put them on EVERYONES garbage cans...just saying.
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In 1955, Life Magazine celebrated the advent of “a garbage can you don’t have to empty” also known as the Bard-Matic Garbage Eliminator named after its inventor,
Mr. Elmer Bard. Mr. Bard had solved the garbage problem. Fifty-five years later, we’re excited to bring a great and timely idea back to life.”
My dad’s company was a distributor for the Bard Matic back in the 50’s. We actually had two of them in the back yard. They worked well and the dissolved residue was a lot like you know what. The only problem was maggots. Even though there was a tight seal on the hinged lid, Flies got in. when maggots became a problem, the interior needed to be sprayed.
There are photos on line but they can’t be copied
http://books.google.ca/books?id=rVYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=bardmatic&source=bl&ots=jVWIZEnoBp&sig=T8jgj44MtOLczX23Jo6CiiMW7gI&hl=en&ei=6XVbTI-sHYrSsAPC1_jWDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=bardmatic&f=false
Try giving it away to the needy and watch the police come down on you for feeding the public without a license.
Liberals.......is there anything they don’t know?.....................
Yeah.
Their ass from a hole in the ground....................
Just shove the unwanted food into a garbage disposal in the kitchen.
“After a while, these ‘scarlet letters’ will be so common that there will be no shame in having one.”
Paint your garbage can the same color of red!
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
“i’ve heard of lions and alligators but never chickens; thatIS trendy. “
They learned about it from Fidel’s first visit to NYC. Or that was the rumor way back when.
I call BS - if you landfill it, it breaks down and releases methane...often captured and sold. Composting in your backyard allows that methane free escape....NO lets be clear - this is about a nanny state control and money
That’s why the old timers had pigs and chickens in town!
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