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July 19, 2007

Seattle Regulates Table Scraps

Posted by Dave Blount at July 19, 2007 6:55 AM

Seattle's ecofascists will now require city residents to pay to have their table scraps recycled. No, this is not a joke.

Thankfully, bureaucrats have no plans (for now) to inspect garbage to make sure citizens are recycling their table scraps. The important thing is that they get their money — so all single-family homes will be required to pay for this latest recycling program.

It could get even worse:

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) will study a ban on putting food waste in the garbage can — and enforcing the ban as it does with aluminum, paper and glass. If businesses, apartments and houses place recyclable material in their trash, violators are fined or their garbage doesn't get picked up.

Also under consideration are bans on Styrofoam, plastic garbage bags, and do-it-yourself trips to garbage transfer stations.

Environmentalism is the most demented form of totalitarianism yet devised. It will go as far as we let it, until our very breath is taxed and regulated, if not banned.

On a tip from Bill.