[HunterConservationist]

Front page article, today's Seattle Times. Your garbage crew will check your garbage and soon begin to fine you. Seems like a perfect cap to that other thread. Your recycling scheme is not "Green". It's an expensive make-work system. It's not a good value. It's not a service, it's snooping. It's not becoming of a (formerly) free nation that values individual choices, including making your own decisions about even trivial tasks. Everyone's an informer, an agent of the state, even your garbage collectors. Good job "progressive" Seattle.

[Kim Brown]

Thanks for informing us about the article; otherwise, we'd never know about the new policy or how to recycle. It's all so new to us.

[Ski]

hey, Merry Christmas to you too!

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[HunterConservationist]

[Voxxjin]

Just curious, how often do they pick up this yard/food waste? Cause I gotta imagine that that can will reek badly just sitting around. That and I can imagine maggots crawling all over it.

[Dante]

"Clean green" gets picked up weekly with trash. Recycling gets picked up every other week. It can get nasty in the summer. Rotting grass clippings are the worst, IMO. I thought they were already enforcing recycling rules, but I've never heard of anyone getting busted. My biggest complaint with our trash collectors is they can't seem to keep their records straight. At least once or twice a year I get charged for "extra" garbage when I didn't leave any out. It usually takes a couple phone calls to resolve the problem when it happens.

[Doppelganger]

[JVesquire]

You are an angry, angry person. Merry Christmas. The recyclers already bust you for putting nonrecyclables in. The food waste doesn't stink too bad. It's not any different than having food waste in your garbage can for a week.

[Malachai Constant]

Happy Hollidays H.C., always ready to add a little spittle and bile for everyone else. Good will to all men.

[jimmylegs]

[More Cowbell]

It's all the fault of those lazy peanut butter eaters that don't clean their jars or recycle them.

[Kim Brown]

So much anger over someone elses' recycle program.

[Ski]

HC: if it's of any consolation to you: several years ago Tacoma Public Utilities delivered small rectangular brown plastic "food waste" baskets to every house in the city. the idea was that we were supposed to put table scraps, clippings, peelings, and other discarded food waste into these little 7" x 6" x 10" injection-molded brown plastic boxes (which presumably we would keep either on our kitchen counters or under our kitchen sinks.) when they were filled, we were supposed to dump them into the yard waste bins (which are picked up every other week.) I put mine way up high on a shelf out in the far corner of the garage. a couple years later I got a knock at my front door. it was a representative from TPU who was taking a survey about services. one of the things he asked about was the little "food waste" basket. "Have you been using your food waste basket?" "Hell no. It's out in the garage. You want it back?" "Uh... no." "Does anybody actually use those things? What college boy dreamed up that scheme?" "Uh... no. Nobody uses them." But alas, this is the City of Destiny. We have no garbage police, no monorails, no multi-bazillion-dollar sports stadiums, and lots of empty parking spaces.

[cairn builder]

[treeswarper]

I would bribe the garbage guys. Fresh cookies for them? Making sure the cookies don't look like compost. Keep them happy.