Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents’ trash to make sure pizza crusts aren’t mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Why doesn’t California just secede from the United States and become a communist state?
And if residents or businesses don’t separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped.
The plan to require proper sorting of refuse would be the nation’s first mandatory recycling and composting law. It would direct garbage collectors to inspect the trash to make sure it is put into the right blue, black or green bin, according to a draft of the legislation prepared by the city’s Department of the Environment.
I’m one of those that recycles everything, everything goes into the big brown bin.
“We don’t want to fine people,” the mayor said. “We want to change behavior.”
Of course they do. It’s not enough to convince people to take action through education, you have to be forced by threat of punishment and that’s the democratic way.
AWB
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