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Seattle to Fine Residents for Throwing Food in the Garbage
CNS.com ^ | January 28, 2015 | Curtis kalin

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?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenhousegases; liberalism; methane; nannystate; pc; seattle
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1 posted on 01/28/2015 10:12:24 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
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To: Reverend Saltine
The ultimate goal of the law is to boost composting while reducing greenhouse gasses:

Composting CREATES so-called 'greenhouse gasses'.......................

2 posted on 01/28/2015 10:15:00 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Apparently food is not biodegradable, a hazardous substance...


3 posted on 01/28/2015 10:15:26 AM PST by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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To: Reverend Saltine

I would make certain there was some dog chit or a dirty diaper in every bag of trash I threw away, LOL!

Have fun, Trash Nannies!


4 posted on 01/28/2015 10:16:12 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Can I ask a stupid question? Do they provide separate receptacles for your food or other organic garbage? If not exactly what do they expect you to do with such waste? Flush down the toilet and clog up the pipes?

Is Seattle run by feel good.liberals??? Is that a subtext to all of this???


5 posted on 01/28/2015 10:16:27 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Seattle can now give homeless people gainful employment as City Garbage Inspectors. They will have badges to show police who accost them for dumping peoples’ garbage cans.


6 posted on 01/28/2015 10:17:17 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Reverend Saltine

After a while, these ‘scarlet letters’ will be so common that there will be no shame in having one.


7 posted on 01/28/2015 10:17:39 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Out of control government


8 posted on 01/28/2015 10:18:03 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Hmmmm. Will they be monitoring our waste water and examining certain waste products to determine if we are eating the proper nutritional foods as prescribed by dr. moochie? Seattlites, how can you stay there?


9 posted on 01/28/2015 10:18:26 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Why not make some sort of cloth they must wear on thier clothing to shame them, you know like the Nazi’s did with the Jews during the Holocaust. That way the world will know that progressives are a nazi like movement?
Freegards
LEX


10 posted on 01/28/2015 10:18:34 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Red Badger

DC runs on gas-—farts


11 posted on 01/28/2015 10:18:44 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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Food should be banned. We need Food Free Zones.


12 posted on 01/28/2015 10:19:10 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I make sure after “yard duty” that I spread Rover’s “works” all over whatever’s on top in the can, for the divers.


13 posted on 01/28/2015 10:20:08 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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But the libs are the ones who banned leftover food from being distributed to the poor and needy. How dumb are they? Or do they just want to make everyone a felon?


14 posted on 01/28/2015 10:20:16 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: arthurus

i say feed the homeless.

feed them to....


15 posted on 01/28/2015 10:21:16 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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Put dog crap in there with it and tell them it was “contaminated”.

Wonder if they will revue financial statements that are tossed out as well. “YOU MISSED A GOOD DEAL THERE AND SHOULD HAVE SWITCHED CREDIT CARDS!”


16 posted on 01/28/2015 10:22:01 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Reverend Saltine

How do people in apartments compost?


17 posted on 01/28/2015 10:22:05 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Hey, that’s good. Maybe the Trash Patch of Shame. Or brand their foreheads wth some sort of number....?


18 posted on 01/28/2015 10:22:20 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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This could cause a bunch of garbage to just get thrown on the streets. I wonder if we’re going to be treated to a MSM
Special Report examining the “unexplained” rat population explosion in Seattle next summer.


19 posted on 01/28/2015 10:22:51 AM PST by skimbell
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To: miss marmelstein

somehow...that sounds dirty...and, well, trendy.


20 posted on 01/28/2015 10:23:51 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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