You will Obey
 

In Cleveland, you better recycle and you better make enough trash.

Next up, high tech toilets that check to see you use enough, but not too much, toilet paper. :rolleyes:

Well, some parts of England maybe ...

If Cleveland is making $26/ton, how much do you suppose Waste Management
or Republic (formerly Allied Waste) are making per billion tons,
that makes such a project to find every last holdout customer
worth the lobbying effort to get the County government to write it into enforcement law ?

When you need them, where's the NRA crying out:
" I'll give you my recyclables when you pry them from my cold, dead trash cart ! "

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I would assume it would only be worth the expense in the largest cities.

Story is from 2010

Update on story in April 2015

Summary of update: nobody has been fined.

That's typical, well planned, poorly executed.

In my neighborhood you have to pay extra for the privilege of getting a recycle bin. Only maybe one in five houses has one at all, let alone how much they are or aren't filling it.

Here we pay for recycling whether we use it or not, they tack it onto the property tax bill as a separate fee, and hire a contractor to pick it up every other week.
Trash pickup is private contractors we have to hire/pay ourselves.

Plus, even in the original article, you wouldn't be fined for too little trash. If you had too little recycling, your regular trash might be checked for recyclables.

jfc

what a bunch of slackers you all are.

here, here we get garbage cans, recycling cans, and compost cans. we're expected. no. required to separate our garbage from our recycling from our compostables. and no shit, if you put more that about 5% of compostables in a noncompostable can, recycling or garbage, you're liable for a fine up to $50 per offense.

I shit you not.

Now, heh, that means they need to look in my cans to find out what's being put where, right? turns out, in our zeal to protect the privacy of our citizens, our garbage is considered private. and looking at that garbage without a warrant constitutes a legal violation of my privacy. so now the government has no way to collect evidence of violation of the law they've passed.

I'm completely cool with all aspects of the current snafu. in fact, there's a LAWSUIT against the city for a breach of privacy for just this situation. fine. It's right to separate the garbage. I've been to the dump, a lot, and recently. there's many many metric fucktons of just unnecessary crapola in the landfills. stuff that would be cheaper and easier to remake by recycling, *IF* the effort/cost of sorting/streaming it to the right place were not passed on to the next dumber sucker.

still.

it's a bit of a headache to have to maintain three fucking "trash" cans in the kitchen and the alley.

What's the difference between garbage and compostables? Everything in the garbage, except maybe egg shells and coffee grounds, should compost ok. Or are interchanging the word garbage and trash?

Is this a federal law they can't peek in the cans, because I've read several places claiming as soon as it goes to the curb it belongs to the city, so people aren't allow to take anything put out. I think is came about from homeless people looking for aluminum to sell or deposit cans/bottles.

styrofoam containers and the food that's in them !

From here:

And I thought I wanted to move to Seattle.

Come on, man, you'll love it. I do.