[Elle Bee]

Coming to a city near you soon .... in the same breath in which they complain about a budget crisis they propose to set up a garbage police force through more feel good legislation

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[gdaddy]

I once lived in a forced “recycling” community. They took the separated high BTU “recyclables” and sent them to the incinerators to properly burn the low BTU “recyclables”.

Very nice method of recycling...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“No one likes being told what to do, but sometimes reality demands we behave more responsibly.”

But don’t tell that to the homosexuals...that would be too mean. *Rolleyes*

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The town I live in is known as “The Recycling Capitol of the World.” It says so on the sign when you’re driving in to town, so it MUST be true, right?

I live on a farm. We have very little trash because we burn paper, food scraps go to the hens or the compost pile. Newspapers (Sunday only) go to the Goodwill for packaging; I re-use paper bags and packing materials for shipping books I sell. Aluminum pop and beer cans have been crushed, bagged and taken to the metals center for CASH for at least a decade now. Husband has his “metal pile” and that gets hauled there once a year, too.

I’ll put myself up against ANY Greenie when it comes to living lightly on this Earth. I do it because I’m cheap and it’s just the way I live. I’m not out to ‘save’ the planet.

F-em. Seriously. The Nanny Staters annoy me to NO end.

All these DEMANDS make me want to do is to throw stuff away in the regular trash and to not process it properly.

[DugwayDuke]

Roughly speaking, the city collects $25/year from each customer to pick up the recycleables. The $800,000 they want to save could be quickly achieved by stopping the collection of recycleables. Roughly 32,000 customers times $25 = $800,000.00

[sionnsar]

The proposed ordinance does not make non-recyclers criminals, but instead emphasizes the importance of recycling.

And once upon a time failure to wear a seatbelt would never, ever be a primary driving offense, we were promised.

But a couple of months ago I drove past a "seat-belt trap." One cop at an intersection corner peering into cars and two or three with cars pulled over, writing tickets.

It won't take long for failure to recycle to become a criminal offense.

[longtermmemmory]

big brother loves you.

I wonder how much of this is paola for recycling contracts which are for garbage collection companies. How much is for using citizens as defacto employees for garbage sorting to raise money for revenue.

Slavery is not allowed in this country, the key west commission should not be allowed to impose labor on citizens no matter how much “for the children” they excuse it.

[beltfed308]

I have been fighting the City for 2 years in trying to get them to enforce the laws they have now. Clinton Square and the flagrant violation of the OPC ordinance that the electric BSmobiles get away with have me convinced that someone is being paid off.