[angry elephant]

When they started those garbage inspections, I started telling everyone that now the city had hired a bunch of “Garbage Pickers.”

Not satisfied that Seattle is a sanctuary city with huge homes camps under the freeways, now the city actually pays folks to pick garbage.

[ozzymandus]

They have to keep stale bread and moldy lunchmeat? How progressive.

[Bodleian_Girl]

What are they supposed to do with the food scraps?

[GOP Poet]

Ethan Blevins, attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of eight Seattle residents, called the ruling a “victory for common sense and constitutional rights.” “A clear message has been sent to Seattle public officials: Recycling and other environmental initiatives can’t be pursued in a way that treats people’s freedoms as disposable,” Mr. Blevins said in a statement. “Seattle can’t place its composting goals over the privacy rights of its residents.” The lawsuit argued that the ordinance essentially allowed warrantless searches, which Mr. Blevins described as an invasion of privacy and a “policy of massive and persistent snooping.”OMG! Common sense! Legal protections of privacy rights over enviro nazis! And in Seattle nonetheless. Amazing. May the tide be turning on the fascists. We'll leave the Seattle commies and race baiting, police haters for another day. This is a beginning. Thanks for posting KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle. I know how happy you are. :) It's a bright spot for us all.

[Bullish]

Good Gawd liberals are stupid.

[jonrick46]

I keep a bucket for my food waste. It gets loaded with fly larvae and I am sure they hatch somewhere on their way to the city compose. I wonder what the city compost pile is like. It must be loaded with flies.

[Popman]

I can not imagine living in such a progressive hellhole where the "state" thinks picking though your garbage looking for ways to fine you and guilt you into recycling garbage food is perfectly OK..

[W.]

Heh, all my old stuff [what little there is] goes right down the crapper. Beats walking 100 yards x2 to the dumpster.

[Twinkie]

We’ve composted for 30 yrs. It keeps from having to keep
a garbage disposal running (we don’t have one); also keeps
the trash can from stinking like a hog pen. As it is, just
the “trash” has enough residue on it to keep it smelling
bad enough. You get used to composting & it becomes just
second nature. We keep a decent compost container (an old
ice bucket) on the kitchen counter. It has a lid & is
acceptable. Also, we do put a small amount of food scraps
in the compost as our compost bin is now covered so that
animals can’t get into it. Once fished a mad possum out
of the old bin with a pitchfork. Rinsed him off with a
pitcher of plain warm water & he waddled off gratefully
into the woods.

[abclily]

What was the goal of this ordinance?

[trebb]

If they want to do it constitutionally, they need to provide bins for the citizens to throw all their trash and have the collectors sort it out into “acceptable” types....

[4yearlurker]

Wasn't this a episode on M.A.S.H ? "I'll tell you what burns...if there are any food scraps left over ,you eat them."

[Little Pig]

This almost seems backwards. The courts have ruled several times that it is legal for the government (or anyone else, really) to go through your trash once you’ve put it out in the can. It’s the restriction on what you can or can’t throw away that seems unconstitutional to me (though IANAL).

[Gamecock]

You are the bear claw in the garbage bag of my life.

[Buttons12]

Without food scraps there would be no dogs.

[Pride in the USA]

ping