i'd just disable the chip. :shrug:
Wouldn't the city figure out something was wrong if the chip stopped working and do you actually know how to do something like that?
If you disable the chip, you're not letting them do anything.
This is why its just as important to vote in local elections. You would expect to hear about this kind of nonsense happening in the UK not in the US.
High-tech carts will tell on Cleveland residents who don't recycle ... and they face $100 fine | cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling -- and fine them $100 if they don't.
The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.
The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.
Trash carts containing more than 10 percent recyclable material could lead to a $100 fine, according to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens. Recyclables include glass, metal cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard.
City Council on Wednesday approved spending $2.5 million on high-tech carts for 25,000 households across the city, expanding a pilot program that began in 2007 with 15,000 households.
The expansion will continue at 25,000 households a year until nearly all of the city's 150,000 residences are included. Existing carts might be retrofitted with the microchips.
"We're trying to automate our system to be a more efficient operation," Owens said. "This chip will assist us in doing our job better."
This is why its just as important to vote in local elections. You would expect to hear about this kind of nonsense happening in the UK not in the US.
High-tech carts will tell on Cleveland residents who don't recycle ... and they face $100 fine | cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling -- and fine them $100 if they don't.
The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.
The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.
Trash carts containing more than 10 percent recyclable material could lead to a $100 fine, according to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens. Recyclables include glass, metal cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard.
City Council on Wednesday approved spending $2.5 million on high-tech carts for 25,000 households across the city, expanding a pilot program that began in 2007 with 15,000 households.
The expansion will continue at 25,000 households a year until nearly all of the city's 150,000 residences are included. Existing carts might be retrofitted with the microchips.
"We're trying to automate our system to be a more efficient operation," Owens said. "This chip will assist us in doing our job better."
Lmao, I would just clone the chip/barcode and just pop it on my regular trash bin, I'm sure they only scan and trash and I doubt they keep the codes separate, which might seem fishy that you only recycle but don't have any trash whatsoever.
And should it be the government's job to make you recycle? Heck no! It's their own imperative and if they don't then they don't. If they do, well whoopie Do, who cares really. Saves some resources, but heck, plastic isn't really a recyclable resource because they can only recycle downward before the last recycled plastic is not recyclable.
That's like making people drink 8 glasses of water. Is it good for you/society, sure.... Is it the government's job? No. I will see this in the future. We will have these water bottles that are linked to a gps transmitter and a wifi hookup that will tell the g-man that we aren't drinking all 8 glasses of water and get fined for not doing so.
And should it be the government's job to make you recycle? Heck no! It's their own imperative and if they don't then they don't. If they do, well whoopie Do, who cares really. Saves some resources, but heck, plastic isn't really a recyclable resource because they can only recycle downward before the last recycled plastic is not recyclable.
How come posters are trying to disable the chips?
Of course you do.I think they're great.
It should be compulsory to recycle and those who don't do it should be fined.
to disable the chip, just find where it is in the bin, and run electricity from a car battery through it, should short circuit it, and plead ignorance.
Because many people see it as a privacy invasion with the government sticking a chip in your trash can to track what you throw away. Besides that today it could be a chip in your garbage can tomorrow it could be a chip in your car to charge you mileage taxes and to fine you if you speed, a chip on your house to make sure you are not wasting energy or water a chip in your mailbox to track what you send and so on. You give the government a inch they will take a mile. Then there is the reasonable fear that through process of incrementation the people overtime will submit to more government control and loss of rights.
Of course you do.
Then go live in Britain, not the US. Americans do not like the idea of the government being able to spy on you.
Fair enough. Stop using government garbage collection then and take your garbage to the dump yourself.
Fair enough. Stop using government garbage collection then and take your garbage to the dump yourself.
First off, recycling is overrated. Last time I did any research on the subject, the methods used weren't that effective. And it often made alot of pollution in itself. Second if the government wants to increase recycling they can sort through the garbage themselves, and send it to be recycled. No one should be fined for not recycling.
What's the issue here?
Are there actually lazy pigs out there who actually can't be bothered to recycle their junk?? Oh my, it takes 5 extra seconds to toss your 2-liter diet pepsi bottle into the Recycle bin instead of the trash. Jesus Christ!
Not to mention, that we aren't running out of space for landfills or materials.
How come posters are trying to disable the chips? I think they're great. It should be compulsory to recycle and those who don't do it should be fined.
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