Everyone needs chickens, pigs and dogs

[workinonit]

If that were the case this problem wouldn't exist.

Throwing away your food scraps could bring a fine in 2024. What to know about CA's compost law

The city of Sacramento is choosing education over enforcement. It doesn't want to be the garbage police.

www.kcra.com

 

[tacticalturnip]

A city in California has found a new revenue source? How surprising.

 

[plowhog]

From the article:

"Throwing away your kitchen food scraps in the trash can could be breaking a California law"
"It's not about punishment or penalizing anybody,"
"I'm not out there with my ticket book checking everybody's trash can,"

Total Baloney

I have a regular outside can, and a recycles outside can for plastic and other recyclable waste. We have two trash receptacles inside our house, regular vs recycled. We separate everything and wash out cans and bottles as requested.

I received a warning letter from Waste Management along with a list of monetary fines and notice it could result in eventual service cutoff. Their camera, mounted inside the trash truck, takes pictures of every can dumped. Somebody reviews those, and discovered "violator" contents from my recycle can. They included the photo of the "violation" item, right after it had been dumped.

My offense? We line our in-house trash cans with plastic liners, which are white. Get them from the grocery store. Because the (recyclable) plastic bag was not clear, the camera could not see the contents of the bag. Violation! So they didn't even know what the contents of the bag was. And presumed I was a scofflaw. I checked about trying to purchase clear bags, could find none, and wrote them back.

Then, I got a second violation letter. Sterner language. I wrote them back and said: "I will just put everything in the main trash bin so I am not subject to fines and service cutoff."

This stuff is creeping in from every direction.

 

[scootr]

A city in California has found a new revenue source? How surprising.

You would think they could just run pigs on the dump and feed pork to the homeless.

 

[scootr]

From the article:

"Throwing away your kitchen food scraps in the trash can could be breaking a California law"
"It's not about punishment or penalizing anybody,"
"I'm not out there with my ticket book checking everybody's trash can,"

Total Baloney

I have a regular outside can, and a recycles outside can for plastic and other recyclable waste. We have two trash receptacles inside our house, regular vs recycled. We separate everything and wash out cans and bottles as requested.

I received a warning letter from Waste Management along with a list of monetary fines and notice it could result in eventual service cutoff. Their camera, mounted inside the trash truck, takes pictures of every can dumped. Somebody reviews those, and discovered "violator" contents from my recycle can. They included the photo of the "violation" item, right after it had been dumped.

My offense? We line our in-house trash cans with plastic liners, which are white. Get them from the grocery store. Because the (recyclable) plastic bag was not clear, the camera could not see the contents of the bag. Violation! So they didn't even know what the contents of the bag was. And presumed I was a scofflaw. I checked about trying to purchase clear bags, could find none, and wrote them back.

Then, I got a second violation letter. Sterner language. I wrote them back and said: "I will just put everything in the main trash bin so I am not subject to fines and service cutoff."

This stuff is creeping in from every direction.

Funny not so funny story. We have a home business so we are mandated 2 dumpsters for trash and recyclables. Recycle truck came and emptied the wrong bin. Ones green and ones white. Easy mistake? Anyway I got $100 fine and had to call and wait while the operator and her supervisor reviewed the footage to see the green trash bin.

 

[workinonit]

What a freaking mess. If something had me tied to living in the western block I think I would just shoot myself. Scraps go to the hogs/dogs/chickens and I still have a burn barrel in my backyard for the burnable trash. I try not to contribute to the methane burners at the landfill.

 

[EddieWalker]

Probably just another way of charging everyone for another garbage can that you put leftovers into. They make more money doing the exact same thing.

Back in the 90's I was with the Teamsters in Oakland California and I knew a few guys that where garbage collectors. At that time, everyone had a big garbage can, and then three smaller, squarish tubs that where different colors for paper, glass and aluminum.

Since nobody separated the type of paper, glass or aluminum that they put into their tubs, I asked them how they do that after they pick them up. They just laughed and said that everything gets mixed together, and all of it goes to the landfill.

Government creates a problem, charges more to pretend to fix the problem, and doesn't actually do anything at all.

 

[Snobdds]

How does one remember all the laws imposed by the state, for those living in California.

I have to assume the law of diminishing returns applies here.

California will be an administrative state before long.

 

[Jstpssng]

I got $100 fine and had to call and wait while the operator and her supervisor reviewed the footage to see the green trash b

Wait- how did they know that the wrong trash came from you, yet fail to see which bin was dumped??

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Funny not so funny story. We have a home business so we are mandated 2 dumpsters for trash and recyclables. Recycle truck came and emptied the wrong bin. Ones green and ones white. Easy mistake? Anyway I got $100 fine and had to call and wait while the operator and her supervisor reviewed the footage to see the green trash bin.

Yep, in Lake Elsinore someone I know had the same problem.
Must be color blind or don't care blind.