The trash nanny is on the way!

[Christians4LessGvt]

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.

"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.

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[sirs]

SNL did a skit on this a while back.  Took this far fetched idea of garbage police, to its logical lunacy.  And now we're starting to see the lunacy actually being implimented     

[Christians4LessGvt]

Sirs....i am telling you I agree with Michael Savage
Liberalism/Control-ism is a mental illness.
Control our garbage
Control our thermostats
Control the temp of hot water from our shower-heads
Control the size of our cars
Control our clothes washing machines
Control our light-bulbs
Control our healthcare
Control our food and our school lunches
Control control control control control

And most of the latest control freak forced mandates originate from so called "Global Warming"
So you see they use the fraud known as man-made global warming to further a "control agenda"
They are severely sick puppies...that need...that arrogance that they know better..and they want to control people

[sirs]

That last "Blizzard of the century", that was nothing more than the normal blizzard that the NE occasionally gets, was a demonstration of the emotional hysteria that the left tries to portray as global warming caused.  Let's ignore all the massive class 5 Hurricanes we were supposed to be getting, and not.  Lets ignore all the manipulated statistics that was discovered with the hacked e-mail accounts.  When there's an agenda to be pushed, the ends justify the means

While the left tries to paint "greed" as the end all be all to evil, the far more dangerous evil is power......specifically the power to control what other people do & how they're to live     

[Xavier_Onassis]

Either the citizen sorts out the trash or the trash cannot be sorted. If the trash is not sorted properly, then recycling is impossible.  Seattle has a pretty sophisticated and functioning recycling program.  If you do not live there, you do not understand the culture, and really should not criticize.

Here in Miami Dade County, we have a regular pickup of yard waste and garbage, and a "recycle bin" which is mostly just a boondoggle, as it is a private company that  says it wants only paper, aluminum, glass and steel cans, and only some types of plastic. They say they cannot recycle the most common of all plastic, those bags. They want the bottles your cooking oil comes in, but not the caps, and they want beer cans but not tinfoil. Since the list of whet they want and do not want is extremely complicated, no one I know seems to sort it out they way they want, and I think that all of it just ends up in a landfill.

I save those plastic bags and take them to Publix Supermarkets, who claims they make park benches out of them. My Cuban girlfriend stuffed them into her luggage and sold them in Havana for a peso apiece, since in Cuba, everyone has to supply their own bag.

Global Climate Change DOES exist.  Places in Miami Beach that never used to flood do so every time the Moon causes a really high tide. My house it 12 ft above sea level and is built four feet above ground.

I changed all the lights in my home, and my electric bill went down. There is no difference in the amount of light, and I do not have to replace bulbs so often.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Global Climate Change DOES exist.  Places in Miami Beach that never used to flood do so every time the Moon causes a really high tide. My house it 12 ft above sea level and is built four feet above ground.

There is no doubt weather changes have been happening for thousands of years
and will continue for thousands of years.

I changed all the lights in my home, and my electric bill went down.
There is no difference in the amount of light, and I do not have to replace bulbs so often.

So if that is all true....why not allow people to choose?
If the new light bulbs are so great...why force people to use them?
I have no problem with people that like mercury filled light bulbs
But if others don't like or want them...then leave us the hell alone!
and don't outlaw our light-bulbs!

[Xavier_Onassis]

You do not have to use mercury light bulbs. LEDS are even more efficient and last longer.  I imagine that you could probably afford to buy LEDs, they are not all that more expensive. That is what I am using.

[Plane]

  There is another thing that causes flooding .

    IN many parts of coastal Florida, Texas and Louisiana, the land is subsiding.

    There are lots of reasons, but the number one reason is pumping freshwater out of the watertable and pumping oil out of deep strata.
    The pumped water or oil is not replaced with vacuum , the missing mass is replaced with collapse.

     This combines with oceans that are swelling as they warm, and fill with melting icecaps to flood coastal areas .

     On the bright side , blue states and citys that are bastions of urbanity and liberalism are highly concentrated onto the coastal areas. The first and main loss will be in the communitys that can be easily spared.

   

[Christians4LessGvt]

You do not have to use mercury light bulbs. LEDS are even more efficient and last longer. 
I imagine that you could probably afford to buy LEDs, they are not all that more expensive. That is what I am using.

The point isn't the pros/cons of types of light bulbs, the point is
the gvt should not be forcing people to buy the lightbulb they think is best.
Free citizens should be able to make those choices without gvt nanny-ism.
Where does it F-ing stop?

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA628.html

[sirs]

You do not have to use mercury light bulbs. LEDS are even more efficient and last longer. 
I imagine that you could probably afford to buy LEDs, they are not all that more expensive. That is what I am using.

The point isn't the pros/cons of types of light bulbs, the point is
the gvt should not be forcing people to buy the lightbulb they think is best.

BINGO!!

[Christians4LessGvt]

BINGO!!

Exactly.....
Why can't XO choose what kind of light bulb he wants to purchase?
and then why can't I choose the kind of light bulb I want to purchase?
But no...one side wants to ram their choice down my throat.
Same thing with clothes washing machines, shower heads,
starting to want to control what we eat
How we pack our trash...
blah blah blah
where does it F-ing STOP?

[Xavier_Onassis]

You were not prevented from buying old fashioned inferior incandescent bulbs for several years. You could have bought thousands of them, just like all those whiskerandos that filled their garages, basements and attics with Old Coke when new Coke came out.

Complaining about your inability to prepare for an incandescent-less future is exactly like poor people complaining about how they have nothing to live on but Social Security, except that you had enough money to stock up.

But, of course, you are not bitching about your inability to buy your ostensibly favorite lightbulbs. It is just about your desire to bitch about Democrats acting logically.

You could have stocked up on Zima, Schlitz beer, Pontiacs and Plymouths as well.

[Christians4LessGvt]

You could have stocked up on Zima, Schlitz beer, Pontiacs and Plymouths as well.

Your analogy does not work.
Those beverages were not outlawed by control freaks.

[Xavier_Onassis]

THat is just stupid.

They were still deprived.  People who loved their horses were forced to buy cars or take the trolleys when livery stables burned down or converted to something else.
Everyone who got their jollies from incandescent bulbs could have stocked up on them, they were not deprived.
And all those people who preferred Freon-12 for $1.00 a can were deprived as well. Now you can get fined for selling Freon 12.

This is a total no issue, only morons think that there is any reason whatever to complain about their "right" to buy old style light bulbs.

You change the bulb and it makes no difference whatever.

[sirs]

THat is just stupid.

They were still deprived. 

By the market place & simple progress....NOT by arbitrary Government dictate.  The analogy is spot on