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What's so hard about doing these things that a city needs to baby its people...
Why no public hearing? Ok, it wasn't required. So? Ethically, if for no other reason, shouldn't people be given the opportunity to voice their thoughts on a new fine system prior them being subjected to it?SEATTLE: Seattle to fine residents for not composting | National Business News | The Bellingham Herald
Seattle Public Utilities asked the council to consider the ordinance because the agency is falling short of its recycling and composting goals. The council vote was 9-to-0. No public hearing was required.
I have a question about this: Who gets to use the compost?? I'm big fan of composting and I understand just how much compost a household can produce in a year. I actually have to haul out dirt from my raised bed garden every year to have room for the compost I produce. So if you take a city the size of Seattle and require everyone to compost, that's a LOT of compost. Most people can't use that much compost, especially, if they're apartment dwellers. So, who's getting this "black gold"?
Do people that live in apartments use compost for anything?
Excellent question.
People in apt buildings are not required to separate their garbage and are not subject to fines.
It helps to read the article
People in apt buildings are not required to separate their garbage and are not subject to fines.
It helps to read the article
If that is true, then it is obviously a plan to make money.
because making money is bad
I don't know how to respond to that.
You are OK with a money making scheme targeting homeowners specifically?
Do they not pay enough in property taxes already?
Don't throw away those corn cobs. Jeesh!
SEATTLE: Seattle to fine residents for not composting | National Business News | The Bellingham Herald
Don't throw away those corn cobs. Jeesh!
SEATTLE: Seattle to fine residents for not composting | National Business News | The Bellingham Herald
"black gold"?
It's hard to remember to do this when you're stoned out of your gourd.
Right. Does this turn the garbage man into a code enforcement officer?Sounds like a law that can be very arbitrarily and prejudicially reported. Easily abused.
I'd like to see the first law suit where they need to prove that it was their trash with too much compostible food in it...since the evidence will be mixed in with all the other garbage.
Right. Does this turn the garbage man into a code enforcement officer?
Isn't a garbage heap, composting anyway?
I generally favor composting myself, better for the environment, but instituting a fine for not doing so? That's just ridiculous.
Isn't a garbage heap, composting anyway?
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