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Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling
Starting next year Cleveland residents face paying a $100 fine if they don't recycle, and the city's new high-tech trash cans will keep track if they don't. The new cans are embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes which keep track of how often residents take them to the curb. If the chip shows you haven't brought your recycle can out in a while, a lucky trash supervisor will go through your can looking for recyclables. From the article: "Trash carts containing more than 10 percent recyclable material could lead to a $100 fine, according to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens. Recyclables include glass, metal cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard."
Yeah! Stick it to that evil minimum-wage worker hired to sort through the recycles, who has no influence on the laws or on this program whatsoever. That'll show 'em!
Why? You're giving it to them already, aren't you?
If you're concerned about privacy, buy a shredder.
If the though of the e-e-evil city gub'mint having your trash bothers you, dispose of it yourself.
I'm fairly sure that an unrestricted anonymous waste disposal service wasn't guaranteed in the constitution.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I wonder how long before Cleveland just sends in SWAT on a daily basis to search for recyclables, and if you are found to have some not currently in the bin, they summarily execute you, sell your organs on the black market, and bill your family for the bullet? Only a matter of time!
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
The difference is that a gun - or a sword, or a knife, or any other weapon - is designed to change the balance of power in a fight.
Really. I bet you I could disarm your pussy assed self, take your gun and shoot you with it. Moron.
If you outlaw guns (or swords, or knives), then the vast majority of the population becomes UNARMED. This makes it that much easier for an armed criminal - already a scofflaw - to commit crimes.
the facts are that the US has a vastly higher crime rate than similar countries that have restrictive gun laws. Take your rhetoric and blow it out your ass.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Weyrhauser is a major player in Washington state politics. Which may explain why they get to destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of national forest land.
Did you miss the part where I said Pacific Northwest? Lodgepole Pines, Pacific Silver Fir, and the other assorted pines are soft-woods valued for their pulp and used for paper.
It would be nice if all paper was from private land farming, but I know different. It may be a reneweABLE resource, it doesn't mean it is produced as such.
THL phish sticks