City bans garbage disposal units (includes fine of up to $25,000 a day - Raleigh, NC)

Politicom ^ | 3/08/08

[Polyxene]

“City bans garbage disposal units”

“Let’s see if they can pry it from my cold, stainless steel sink!”

[ElkGroveDan]

Raleigh residents are urged to collect grease in an old can or jar, allow it to harden and put it in the trash.

No. That was 60 years ago. People won't "collect grease." These fools need to solve the problem, not impose more limits.

[Crim]

Love all the sewage experts here /NOT who push their labor savings onto everyone else as a cost and gleefully claim it to be a constitutional right.
There is no “natural right” to use a garbage disposal that empties into a city sewer.

Hooray for the city of Raleigh — the have both right and duty to maintain the city water and sewer and set whatever regulation they view as proper to do so!

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Simple fly in your ointment...these people are bound by LAW to use the sewers....if they had any property rights...they could stay off the system and run a septic tank...

BTW...denial of utilities would be a crime if you do it to your tenents...

A property without running water can be condemmed by most cities and siezed....

but ..hey...you like Govt...right?

[Dustbunny]

pipes clogged with grease

Seems to me that the first pipes to become clogged with grease are the ones that carry the waste from the kitchen sink.

[bvw]

Public goods and services encourage irresponsibility.

Excellent point! And ... evidently the creation of brand new "rights".

[adorno]

Wouldn't that depend on what you put into the disposal unit?

Like anything else, there are of course dependencies.

But, there are so many different kinds of food that most people wouldn't know how to differentiate which are "disposal or plumbing friendly". Eventually, the pipes start with minor accumulations and built up into major "clots".

[Mark was here]

The city government is merely reflecting the views of those who elected it.

The real boneheads here are the voters of Raleigh.

As long as voters cower under a sheet to vote, who actually voted for these imbeciles is as much a secrete as the crazy aunt locked in the attic.

Get rid of the secrete ballot, and hold voters accountable, this will cause more accountability for those elected to office, and result in less bs like this ban on garbage disposers.

[csmusaret]

Running a business must be easy if you have the power of gov’t behind you.

[the invisib1e hand]

its so trendy its sick. I think the church marquis said it all.

And I have to battle its refugees swarming out of the path station, just to get to the gym in the morning. They are not a nice bunch.

I don't think we want to have this discussion. ;)

[relictele]

Raleigh residents are urged to collect grease in an old can or jar, allow it to harden and put it in the trash.}

But enough about Ted Kennedy!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have a septic system and I compost waste scraps or feed them to the chickens. That’s my method of disposal.

But, as usual, some Freepers miss the point of these conversations. This is not ABOUT garbage disposals, it’s about us slipping further and further under Government “Nanny” control, be it local, state or national.

A $25,000.00 fine? Per DAY? How utterly ridiculous. Someone in Government can’t budget... surprise...and they’re looking for a quick fix.

[SoCal Pubbie]

All I know is every morning when I get up I thank God my ancestors had the good sense to get out of Ohio over a hundred years ago.

[the invisib1e hand]

<,i>Confirms to me that even FReepers in Massachusetts are nuts.

Actually, his comment made a lot of sense.

And believe me, I'm no fan of massholes. I was born there!

[relictele]

Looks like the NJ and NY libs are infesting NC.

No doubt about it.

SC is the new NC in terms of creeping liberalism along the seaboard.

[steve86]

Amazing how we have no problem with garbage disposal detritus in my part of the country.

[lonestar]

You don’t need a garbage disposal to pour grease down a drain...just fruits and veggies.

[Gilbo_3]

how exactly does banning garbage disposals prevent the pouring of liguid grease into the system ???

When garbage disposals are outlawed, only outlaws will have garbage disposals...

[bvw]

They do not have to live in a city. I do not. Like others now joined into this thread have said -- those who use and maintain our own wells and septic systems know better of reality in this case than do city fools. We know what the real costs and risks are of idiotic usages.

Besides, even though city folks are plain dimwit and delusional about anything beyond the faucet and drain, you still have the right to vote and to attend council meetings and to appoint your own goofy-headed representatives to the water and and sewer boards.

There is no "Govt" as you say, in the end, there is only "us".

[lysie]

My hubby remarked, “since when does one need a garbage disposal to put grease down the drain?”

[bvw]

You never poured skillet drippings into a tin can?