Seattle passed a new trash ord. to fines for throwing away too much food.

[Tbone-AZ]

Socialism and it's wisdom on display. I couldn't imagine how much of a pain it must be for trash in Seattle. On can for this, another for that, one for recylcing, one for bottles, and one for cans..

The City of Seattle just passed a new trash ordinance that would fine residents and businesses for throwing away too much food.

The new rules would allow garbage collectors to inspect trash cans and ticket offending parties if food and compostable material makes up 10 percent or more of the trash.

The fines will begin at $1 for residents and $50 for businesses and apartment buildings, according to the Seattle Times.

Seattle Public Utilities requested the new rules after falling short of its recycling goals of 60 percent of trash by 2015, according to the Times. The recycling rate in 2013 was 56 percent.

The Seattle city council vote on the new rules was 9-0.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...om-Wasting-Food

 

[sweatybetty]

if they gave the food away, they would face another fine because it wasnt safe. stupid libs

 

[5spd]

I want to hear the bums scream over this...its going to make them look harder for food in trash cans!

 

[Rocky1]

What is a restaurant owner going to do? The majority of his garbage would be food scraps. I see a change in council members forthcoming.

 

[tnshootist]

What if they used glass bottles and paid a deposit,which was returned when the bottles came back.What a fresh idea. No more bottles in the dump.less plastic,and the stuff leaching into the drink. I think I might be on to something. Use the same bottles over and over. Looks like someone would have thought of this before.