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:This has nothing to do with wasting food

[damn_registrars]

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.

I'm not sure which redesign you are referring to, but slashdot has been courting the drudge crowd for at least 5 full years now. With every passing year the site bends further to the right, further away from technology - and reality. I don't think we can really blame it on the owners, though; dice.com didn't buy slashdot (as an accompaniment to sites people actually use like sourceforge) until 2012.

Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus

[damn_registrars]

to excite slashdot's conservative majority

Um, yeah, that's crazy talk.

Really? At least once a week there is a story like this, chosen to excite the conservatives and to try to make the liberals look bad. Can you show me an article posted in the past several months that does the opposite? No, you cannot.

This site carries a lot of political articles, and the vast overwhelming majority of them are for the conservatives. 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?