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2015-01-28 -Land of the Free

Seattle to Fine Residents for Throwing Food in the Garbage

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-01-28 12:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 How dare you not be green! This is for your own good, you knave!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-01-28 12:02|| 2015-01-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm really greatfull to be fortunate enough to live way out in the middle of nowhere.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-01-28 12:13|| 2015-01-28 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Test

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2015-01-28 12:55|| 2015-01-28 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 This thread is eating my comments ... this isn't about the environment, it's a revenue stream.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2015-01-28 12:56|| 2015-01-28 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Watch. The ungrateful prole wretches will start putting their "illegal" trash in other wretches trash cans.

Posted by Anice Nim 2015-01-28 13:08|| 2015-01-28 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 They started with fallen leaves in your yard...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-28 13:12|| 2015-01-28 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 How exactly is letting your organic (in the chemistry sense) garbage decompose in a backyard compost heap any different than letting it decompose in a landfill? Other than growing the local rat population, I mean.

Posted by SteveS 2015-01-28 14:08|| 2015-01-28 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 More garbage will go into toilets then. That's helpful for the Plumbers union I guess.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-01-28 14:23|| 2015-01-28 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Who is gonna dig through to hand out the citations?

Posted by chris 2015-01-28 14:32|| 2015-01-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 ..employing the homeless who already scavenge through the stuff (below living wage and without benefits and under 29 hours a week).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-28 15:11|| 2015-01-28 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Meanwhile Bertha lies dead beneath the soils of Seattle and not building the tunnel that will handle fewer cars than the viaduct it is supposed to replace.

And the Mariners are still the MLB Farm Club.

Go Hawks!

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-01-28 18:04|| 2015-01-28 18:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't kid yerself Deacon yer just up the road ;)

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-01-28 18:06|| 2015-01-28 18:06|| Front Page Top

#13 There's a simple answer, dump the food garbage on the lawns of the people who passed this. If they complain, tell them your just assisting their composting.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-01-28 20:11|| 2015-01-28 20:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Years ago I live in an area that required a fee to have a refrigerator removed. Many could be thrown over hills into wooded areas and left in alleys. I later moved to an area that let you drop your refrigerator at the local dump; I do not recall seeing a stray refrigerator.

People will flush, dump on the side of the road, throw trash into business dumpsters.... This proposal is a problem looking for a mess.

Posted by Airandee 2015-01-28 22:02|| 2015-01-28 22:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Years ago. I was really into the whole self-sufficiency thing - solar, home gardening, and composting. I learned that some things cannot be composted at all, like meat,bones, and grease. What are people supposed to do with them?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-28 22:19|| 2015-01-28 22:19|| Front Page Top

#16 some things cannot be composted at all, like meat,bones, and grease. What are people supposed to do with them?

Start a rat farm.

Posted by SteveS 2015-01-28 22:58|| 2015-01-28 22:58|| Front Page Top

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