The same is true today with any aluminum cans or plastic bottles I use. The trash can is where they go, and even at work, where a recycling bin is made available for bottles and cans, I still throw them into the garbage can (with great satisfaction).
But in Alexandria, Virginia, beware!
Alexandria residents soon will have to pay for larger home recycling bins featuring built-in monitoring devices.
The City Council added a mandatory $9 charge to its residents' annual waste collection fee.
That cash -- roughly $180,000 collected from 19,000 residents-- will pay for new larger recycling carts equipped with computer microchips, which will allow the city to keep tabs on its bins and track resident participation in the city's recycling program.
"If you know who's participating in the programs, you can focus your education and outreach to those who are not participating," said Stacy Herring, Alexandria's recycling coordinator.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/New-recycling-bins-with-tracking-chips-coming-to-Alexandria-92880219.html#ixzz0nFlijGqD
Yes, more government monitoring of the sheeple, to keep them in line and make sure they don't stray too far from their master, the Almighty State.
Complaining about having to recycle? *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI really see no difference between requiring people to recycle and fining people for littering. There was similar mock outrage when litter became a crime, and there will be no one complaining about it once people afraid of change get used to it.
And don't give me any of that "pro-state" crap. The private recycling company in my area has used barcodes on the bins. They weigh each person's recycling and log it. I guess because it's the guvment, it MUST be evil... except they're just trying to see who needs to be reminded that we're living in the 21st century...
I don't have to recycle, and I don't.
ReplyDeleteOh, and of course I'm not opposed to private companies getting into the business of recycling, but what I am against is government telling us we must do it and how we must do it, and that we must be taxed for it and so on. I'm also against any law that artificially creates a business opportunity where the free market would not have supported such a thing.
You're the type to give support to things like California's fraudulent CRV tax on cans and bottles, which raises the price on a case of bottled water there by more than a dollar (same for soda, etc.). I'm against all such deposit schemes, though technically the CA fee is not a deposit, but a tax on the distributor of the product, which is then passed to the end consumer who pays it as an additional charge at purchase.
I'm so sick of bullshit politically correctness.
I really see no difference between requiring people to recycle and fining people for littering.
You're positively out of your mind, aren't you?
The private company who does our trash/recycling fines us for putting recycling in the trash, also. *shrug* I think you're just flipping out about it because it's elected official doing it, not private nobles.
ReplyDeleteThe private company who does our trash/recycling fines us for putting recycling in the trash
ReplyDeleteYes, but do you have a choice of sanitation companies? Does that "private" company have a contract with the city? Are they forced by some law to follow recycling rules themselves? Are there government incentives in place or other general laws that cause them to do that?
Can you burn your trash as an alternative if you want to? Or take it to a private dump where they don't give a fuck if you throw in the recyclables if you want to?
You see, Ginx, we don't have a free market, so your response in this context is meaningless.
So if two-five companies colluded, you'd be satisfied with trading fines for fees, taxes with bills, and elective power for faith in the decency of businessmen?
ReplyDeleteAnd no, the recycling companies lobbied for the ability to charge people for not recycling. They have to pay for trash by the pound for disposal, while recycling often pays for itself, or is at least cheaper. It has nothing to do with government, it has to do with the need to recycle. Why throw a hissy fit about it like a little kid who is told he has to clean his room?
So we have do a free market now, is that what you're saying?
ReplyDeletewhile recycling often pays for itself, or is at least cheaper
Sometimes, but not always. What does often mean here? Don't lie like that, Ginx, it makes you sound like a politician.
And what part of "I have no problem with private recycyling" didn't you understand?
Why throw a hissy fit about it like a little kid who is told he has to clean his room?
Sorry, I'm not going to be guilt-tripped into saving my plastic bottles; they will continue to be thrown into the trash can.