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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This has nothing to do with wasting food

[damn_registrars]

Why does the headline pretend that it does? Didn't the person who posted this bother to read the article before passing it through to the front page?

And what does it have to do with technology?

Re:This has nothing to do with wasting food

[QuietLagoon]

...And what does it have to do with technology?

I've been noticing a trend in many of the articles that make it to the front page here. The trend is towards more inflammatory political-oriented articles that have little or only a marginal relation to technology.

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Maybe after the failed site redesign, the new owners are trying to increase page hits by turning /. into a drudge-like site with lots of misleading headlines.

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[kelemvor4]

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.

If you read TFA, the law seems to be about getting people to put stuff in the right bin. TFS makes it sound like the law is about waste. TFS seems and the headline seem to be deliberately misleading

Here's a quote from TFA:

“The point isn’t to raise revenue,” he said. “We care more about reminding people to separate their materials.”

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[halivar]

to excite slashdot's conservative majority

Um, yeah, that's crazy talk.

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[oh_my_080980980]

Slashdot: "Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food"

Seattle Times: "Seattle OKs $1 fine for adding too much food to garbage bins
Seattle residents could start getting small fines next year for putting too much compostable material into the trash."

Those two titles don't agree with each other. The goal is not about stopping food waste but to make sure that compostable material does not end up in the trash.

Somebody failed reading comprehension.

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[ScentCone]

to excite slashdot's conservative majority

OK, you got me. For a moment there I thought you were taking yourself seriously, and having a rant, however misguided. It's a shame there's no satire/sarcasm tag to reward you for your sense of humor. That was a good one!

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[Wycliffe]

If the conservatives didn't have the overwhelming majority voice here then why do all the front page articles sway to their side when they are about political topics?

I know it's hard to believe but there are more than 2 sides to the political spectrum. There's not just conservatives and
liberals. You're probably right that the majority of slashdot is "anti nanny state" but that doesn't mean that the majority
are conservatives. The "anti nanny state" people are a mixture of anarchists, libertarians, conservatives, independents,
and probably a few other groups I'm forgetting.

If you want proof that slashdot is not majority conservative then look at how slashdot responds to issues like drug laws,
global warming, evolution, the big bang, gay marriage, or anything religious and see if you still have the same opinion.