Up Sucker Creek

Up Sucker Creek
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Go ahead, throw it out!

Seattle has officially become a nanny state.  All the good places are going crazy.  It's like watching your favorite pro baseball player be sent to the minor league.  Really?  A big city waste collection system has the time and inclination to go through people's garbage to see if there's food in it?  What a rip-off for multifamily properties, especially rentals.  Are owners or managers supposed to inspect residents' trash 24-hours a day when it goes into the dumpster to keep food out or to fine individual scofflaws?

Who makes up these rules anyway?  I can just see them now - a bunch of people with way too much time, an abundance of ideology and not enough life experience to know the limits of the willingness of humans to be manipulated like lab rats.  Don't let me down humans!  Have some guts - toss out some banana peels!

When was the last time your garbage collector looked in your trash bin?  

Seattle to begin fining people who put food in trash

The Oregonian, January 7, 2015  By Kelly House

Seattle is laying down the law on residents who violate the city's new trash law by putting food in their garbage bins.

The city has begun putting red tags on the cans of violators, KUOW radio reports. For now, the tag is just a warning. But come July, residents who dump food scraps in the trash will pay $1 each time they violate. Fines for apartments, condos and commercial buildings will be higher.


1 comment:

  1. The Orgonian got it wrong. The law says nothung about "food". It's all about trying to keep recylcing material out of the trash system.

    http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Mandatory-recycling-program-working-well-1198413.php

    DB

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