Ravenwood - 08/07/04 03:00 PM
The environmental movement has slowly moved from a cute little owl asking people to "give a hoot, don't pollute", to jack-booted thugs and nanny-state dickheads forcing people to comply, or else. They are the primary reason I choose not to recycle any more. (If you ask nicely I will comply, but when you tell me I have to recycle or face punishment meted out by the government, I say "Thhbbbbbt".)
If city workers don't see bundles of newspapers or the blue bags used for glass, cans and plastic placed outside a home on recycling day, the city will contact the resident about the requirement, said Guy Costa, the public works director.I don't care how noble the cause is, when you start using the threat of lethal force and the police power of the government to compel people sort their trash (or else), that's tyranny."If we send you a letter and then you continue not to recycle, then we send you a citation," Costa said, who called the fines a last resort.
This would truly be a huge problem for me. I usually eat out, and most of the trash I generate is what comes in through my mailbox. That would surely send up red flags with the trash police.
Take half the neighbors' materials and put them in your recycle bins.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 7, 2004 9:50 PMwould you recycle if I asked sweetly? Perhaps as I rub your back and pop open a beer (in a nice, recycleable aluminum can) for you?
Posted by: Da Goddess at August 8, 2004 1:29 AMNoble the cause? This cause is not noble. It is about the money, not the environment. "$30 a ton for newspaper." That can add up for a city. How about lowering taxes then?
Recyle glass, SAVE THE SAND!
Posted by: FishOrMan at August 8, 2004 12:25 PMSounds like what they do here with our yard waste.
Tell me, do they make you pay for recycling service, too, like they do here (and then they don't pick up everything we recycle.)
hln
Posted by: hln at August 10, 2004 1:03 PMDon't look at me. I don't live in Pittsburgh. I live in an apartment and just throw all my shit in the dumpster.
Posted by: Ravenwood at August 10, 2004 1:42 PMIf Dallas decides to do something like this, some civil disobedience will be in order, starting with a public declaration of my intent to defy this law, and then moving on to the destruction of some recycling bins in various neighborhoods. Like, city counselmen bins.
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