A Connecticut city is instituting a random check program of peoples trash to see if they are throwing out recyclables in the regular trash. They will give out warnings to those who do, and if they continue fines.
Your thoughts?
2007-10-30 11:25:11 · 10 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
I think that it is a great idea...and that as a nation, we are very far behind the times when it comes to recycling. Other Western countries, like Canada for example, already have mandatory fines for trashing recyclables.
The Europen Union has also taken a stance on pollutants that far supasses any legislation that the US has in place. Research the Toxic Substance Control Act and you will find that it is nothing more than the type of political grandstanding typical of our government. Then research decisions made by the EU regarding toxic substances.
I cant speak for the legality of the subject, but I can say that I agree with the concept. Many states already pay a deposit on cans and bottles to keep them off of the streets and out of the environment. Warning and fines are a bit more extreme... but hey, maybe its time we step up and take responsibility for our past and try to live with a greener mind.
2007-10-30 12:55:28 · answer #1 · answered by scott t 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I definitely think that some thing has to be done to get people and the society as a whole to a point where we recycle everything possible. We are making stride but not nearly enough is being recycled. Answer this, why are there not recycling programs set up to allow 2 or 3 times the amount of waste that is presently the case? With all of the homeless people living on the street, why can't they be paid for picking up waste and turning it in for recycle. Can we not recycle a newspaper that has been lying in the street for a week? Add a tax ( ooh a pain full word!!!)to pay the homeless to pickup garbage and return it for recycle. (Hey, Then we might just end up with the cleanest town in the world. Wouldn't that be something? Happy recycling!!!
2007-10-30 11:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by fixn2rock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can residents throw away the warnings they receive, or do they have to recycle those, too?
While the U.S. Supreme Court allowed such searches in California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988), there is too much potential for abuse. All anyone would have to do to cause someone to receive warnings and pay fines would be to slip a few soda cans in that person's trash every week as it sits out on the curb. Moreover, if they wanted that someone to disappear for a few decades, they could simply substitute child porn for the soda cans, and the municipal workers would dutifully start the wheels of "justice" in motion.
"In Connecticut, they came first for the non-recyclers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a non-recycler;
And then they came for the energy and water wasters, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an energy and water waster;
And then they came for the global warming deniers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a global warming denier;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
2007-10-30 11:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by Rationality Personified 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is the begining..well the times are nor far away when everything possible will be recycled and may be water too, if we will not take care of our ways on this planet.
Yes it is good and my suggesttion is that all the other countries should follow suit.
This is one of the ways for mankind to save this planet from many such related disasters.
2007-10-30 15:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by bakhan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to see Gavin Newsome, Barbara Boxer, Carol Midgen, and Nancy Pelosi check all the rash cans in San Francisco for piston engines. If they find something, then they could issue a warning.
2007-10-30 11:50:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
MY thoughts?? Oh HELL NO! I'm all for recycling. I recycle.
PAY Someone with MY tax dollars to do an admirable job, and then REPORT! me??? if I mess up? Are you serious?!?
Can you say "gestapo"?
That has GOT to be the limit.... If just one more person gets just one more idea of how the "rest" of us should live.... arrrgh!
2007-10-31 22:02:35 · answer #6 · answered by Ja'aj };> 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it better not happen in New York because we don't recyclable well here.
2007-10-31 22:24:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's awesome!!!
I don't know how thorough this 'system' will be, but at least it's going in the right direction.
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2007-10-30 11:31:56 · answer #8 · answered by twowords 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's overpriced and punitive. Good way not to get re-elected.
2007-10-30 11:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You couldn't pay me enough to add THAT to my job description....
2007-10-30 12:18:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋