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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.'"
I really thought that was *my* bin I was dumping all that waste food into.
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So, garbage men in Seattle now have the authority to issue people tickets.
Here in Vancouver, they just leave the garbage there in the street in front of your house, I've recently learned.
God, I hate west coast culture.
I chose to respond by going out at night and spreading my garbage up and down the streets.
Fuckers wanna play passive aggressive games? I can play them too.
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Why is it bad that federal law mandates that toilets not be wasteful?
That's not what federal law mandates. It doesn't say "thou shall not be wasteful", it says "thou may use only X gallons per flush". The result is, in many cases, people have to flush twice to get one dump handled properly. Sometimes three or four times. What is being wasted? Water, which goes either to the septic tank and back into the local water table, or to the waste processing plant to be recycled back into the global water cycle.
Why is it bad that federal law mandates listing the wattage used on a bulb?
Who said it was? The problem is the LIMIT, not the listing.
I don't live in NYC. I don't care about soft drink sizes.
When they came for the soft drinks, I didn't say anything because I didn't drink soft drinks. When they came for the twinkies ...
magazine rounds. WGAS? If you need to go on a killing spree just bring more magazines....
Why yes, because the only use for guns are to go on killing sprees.
Air bags are a good thing. So are helmets. So... what's your point?
Government mandates for "good things" to "protect us from ourselves".
No they don't.... I can turn my GPS off...
The moment you call 911 the GPS turns on. AND they track the cell tower.
Welcome to a civilized society. We have rules.
Your problem appears to be that you equate "civilized society" with "government rules". It is possible to have the former without a ridiculous amount of the latter.
There's no micromanaging of your life.
If the government can fine you because you threw an apple core in the trash, yes, there is micromanagement.