Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food

schwit1 writes The new rules would allow garbage collectors to inspect trash cans and ticket offending parties if food and compostable material makes up 10 percent or more of the trash. The fines will begin at $1 for residents and $50 for businesses and apartment buildings. "SPU doesn’t expect to collect many fines, says Tim Croll, the agency’s solid-waste director. The city outlawed recyclable items from the trash nine years ago, but SPU has collected less than $2,000 in fines since then, Croll says. 'The point isn’t to raise revenue,' he said. 'We care more about reminding people to separate their materials.'"

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Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[jasonrice22]

Apparently they see that disposing of food in trash bins instead of compost is a waste. I don't see the problem with the headline.

A little class with your trash.

[duckintheface]

I was in Seattle recently. The guys who pick up the compostable garbage were driving around listening to classical music.... turned up loud so you could hear it over the sound of the truck engine. Not your typical garbage collectors.

Yes, the headline is a pathetic attempt to ring the bell for the conservative Pavlovian dogs to make them salivate all over slashdot. The implication of the headline is that it is about people wasting edible food by throwing it in the trash. Actually it is about compostables (food or otherwise) being placed in the trash steam headed to the landfill rather than the composting station.

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[damn_registrars]

He's just harassing samzenpus.

No. You should try taking your own advice of

take a look at his comments

Before you try to claim to have some understanding of my motivations here.

I am not "harassing" samzenpus. Most likely he won't even read these comments. I am pointing out that samzenpus is just a prime example of how political - and conservative - this site has become. Slashdot used to be a place to come for news and discussions about technology. This article has nothing to do with technology, and samzenpus posts a lot of articles that don't have anything to do with technology.

This article - as shown by the atrocious headline - was posted to excite the conservative base here at slashdot.

If you put extra food in a landfill it becomes waste.

That is not the point of the headline. This awful headline was chosen to get people excited about the "nanny state", "dirty hippies", and all that bullshit. Look at the other terrible articles that he has shepherded to the front page that I have mentioned before, and you'll see that this is not an outlier but part of a trend.