So apparently, the composting of food waste was semi-successful for private homes with yards where you could might have a garden and a compost pile. They want the rest of the city to comply. Dunno where y'all live, but most urban apartment buildings don't have the space to build a compost heap or a garden. Urban restaurants are seriously fucked.

we live in the country -- we compost. . and with a full acre,
there is room for some stuff of all sorts;;; mama nature
can take care of everything. -- j

I don't know where you are, but the fairly small county I live in has a "hazardous waste disposal" section at the dump. Try calling your county dump, or county government to ask.

I'd be awfully tempted just to put my trash in someone else's bin. Or mail it somewhere far away, with no return address.

This can be fun!
- Let's get some Japanese plastic food and get the garbage men to indite us!
- How about some poisoned food for animal control or taste/smell testing (of course poisons suitable for public waste). Food poisoning? - Piles of high fructose corn syruped food, super-sized soda and high-fat foods! We can't throw out what is unhealthy, and my children must eat it?

Oh my god what fun we can have with this. What a smorgasbord of litigation to be made public and crush another well-meaning, leftist trend, demonstrating the foolishness of trying to legislate controls. Freedom is so much like sailing, surfing and leveraging nature, and so little like a well-groomed postage-stamped yard, yet so many leftists don't understand this.

I've asked and can't get anything but a blank stare when I ask how we are supposed to dispose of the new, state of the art light bulbs. We don't have any way to get rid of mercury around here.

If that happens I'm going to open a class on how to set the odometers back. I'll be rich enough to be able to live well in La La land.

I'll throw out anything I damn well please. If I can't do it in Seattle, I'll take myself and whatever wealth I bring there, somewhere else.

Flooyus,

when the driver decided not to lift my container with the automatic arms because he didn't like where the dumpster was i called the trash office and told them only that he past it for some reason and if they didn't want to dump it they could keep it. the next day he showed up to collect it. they did not want to lose the 13.25 i pay each month. now it doesn't matter how coddywonkers i place it he picks it up.

Not all food remnants are compostable. For example, meat, grease, bones should not be put in compost piles, only vegetable matter. Better get a dog to eat the leftovers. Or maybe everyone should become vegetarian. And not everything can be flushed down the sink or toilet if you have septic.

Humans have hugely fouled their nest. We need symbiotic partners, the way nature balances waste disposal among species, with microbes and earth worms the big helpers. We befoul the water. Then algae grow and threaten the lakes, rivers and seas. Can human ingenuity engineer a better cycling method? Freedom does not include the right to mess up the support system for all. I predict in Seattle folks will rather pay the $1 than bother to take the trouble to manage their personal waste more responsibly.

Here in Miami it costs me $9 each time the garbage truck rolls by, whether my can is there or not. We separate plastic, paper and trash. Manufacturers have gone to the trouble of marking all their products with the class of recyclable they contain.

As for food, restaurants are not allowed to give their leftovers to soup kitchens or the homeless. People are not allowed to dig through dumpsters for food. What kind of insanity is this?

I hear the the Congressional Research Office is working on a trash scanner...

So, If that law were to manifest here in NE Nevada, how is it going to work when we are already required to have all trash secured and bagged up in tied up hefty trash bags?

The trash collectors are going to open it all up and rummage through it? They already complain if the trash container they lift and dump via the mechanized bin picker-uppers is facing the wrong direction or is a foot too far from the edge of the road.

And then when do the public health officials step in and require the trash collectors to be certified inspectors of health hazards including medical waste, bio waste and such?

Unbelievable!

lots because they will get a commission for handing out summons it is all about the money. i just read that california wants to charge drivers by the mile now that their tax revenue from gasoline sales are down. if you think these antics are bad give it time. as the economy slips slowly down the tubes and revenues for the governments city county state feds and they have even less to hand out the methods of stealing from us will get worse. and you thought the economy was booming.

it is all about the money. they want people to defy them and continue to throw out their leftovers. time for the population of seattle to decline.

During my days of mail delivery in the great city of Fort Worth, code enforcement personnel would walk up and down the streets checking the contents of the blue and green barrels to make sure everything in there was legit. If not, they put it on the offenders lawn. What a country!

Bet there will be a rise in people purchasing food slicers and dicers just so spoiled food can be flushed down the toilet.

Gotta love the experiment, even though anyone with any logic already knows it won't end well. That has never stopped a liberal - or communist - however.

Long ago we lived in the People's Republic also known as Massachusetts. We learned, possibly correctly, that it was illegal for us to give our neighbor our horse manure for her compost unless it was inspected by the town's manure inspector. Fortunately there was no manure inspector.

Now we live elsewhere, and the manure, Piled higher and Deeper (PhD) is not regulated.

The collectors watch what comes out of the cans as they dump them. We went through it in Oakland when I had thrown away some broken concrete in the trash, and got a "warning notice" that we would be fined $50 next time we did that. I went out and talked to our trash guy - and he said they not only receive training on screening what comes out of the cans, but their supervisor checks up on them regularly to make sure they enforce the rules.

What makes me laugh - is these "right-thinking green socialists" in Seattle spend big bucks and spew pollutants into the air to truck their trash to the far side of another state...

Sleepatle
Home of the Oblivious

I would sooner decamp from that city after this.

digging for dollars :)

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the goal. Higher fines that way. And more intrusion and control. The best alternative would be for Seattle to grow a clue and tell the powers that be to screw themselves... but we're talking about passive, liberal stoners here. They'll get what that kind of drowsy mind set invites. A vampire.

Sorry; I can't help but wonder how many trash collectors will want to dig through people's garbage

what's the alternative? You're forced to compost, next step-compost police. littering in your yard