On 5/22/2016 10:39 PM, Orographic wrote:
> On 5/22/2016 9:10 PM, Sky wrote:
>> On 5/22/2016 8:24 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 May 2016 16:26:13 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> This has been one of silliest posts our resident squirrel
>>>>> has posted in at least a week. But the responses are
>>>>> priceless!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Oh? Read it and weep.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wm.com/enterprise/food-an...-recycling.jsp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://wmnorthwest.com/snohomishcoun...guidelines.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Read it, read it, read it, then shut your pie hole!
>>>
>>> Get real. That's for residential recycling/composting. It only
>>> applies to food waste you generate at home. It figures you're stupid
>>> enough to try and extrapolate that to mean it applies everywhere away
>>> from home.
>>
>> There's no way to reason bove's reasonings! As usual, bove is rather
>> irrational. AFAIK, "recycling" anywhere in the USA is voluntary, not
>> obligatory by law. No doubt bove will refute.
>>
> No doubt she will be right too:
>
> https://www.epa.gov/transforming-was...and-composting
>
>
> Some states and communities adopt mandatory recycling and composting
> laws and ordinances. Requiring all commercial and/or residential
> generators to recycle and/or compost means that local government or
> contractors must provide recycling and composting services to all
> customers.
> Communities don't have to couple “exclusive” agreements with mandatory
> recycling. Some jurisdictions have structured “semi-exclusive”
> agreements where a limited number of permits are available; similar to
> how cities distribute taxi cab medallions.
> Alternatively, "universal roll-out" can be provided, meaning that
> recycling, composting and waste bins and services are provided to all
> customers, rather having separate recycling and compost collection
> service subscription from trash collection. Local governments can also
> require service providers to offer recycling and composting services to
> all garbage customers as a condition of providing services.
> Case studies:
> San Francisco, CA
> Austin, TX
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycl..._United_States
>
> Since there is no national law that mandates recycling, state and local
> governments often introduce recycling requirements. A number of U.S.
> states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa,
> Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont have
> passed laws that establish deposits or refund values on beverage
> containers while other jurisdictions rely on recycling goals or landfill
> bans of recyclable materials.
>
> Mandatory recycling[edit]
> Some cities, such as Seattle, and states like Connecticut,[5] have
> created mandatory recycling laws that may fine citizens who throw away
> certain recyclable materials. Vermont also employed a landfill ban of
> recyclable materials, food and yard waste, and wood.[6] There are also
> voluntary programs and educational programs to increase recycling where
> it is not mandated by law.
>
> Mandatory recycling is the standard e.g. across all European Union since
> the 1990s. Recyclables are prohibited from households, businesses and
> apartment garbage. With businesses that would include cardboard, paper
> and yard waste which would be prohibited from their garbage. For
> apartments and houses, glass, paper, cardboard, aluminum and plastic
> would be prohibited. With businesses and apartments, if garbage
> collectors find more than 10 percent of the container filled with
> recyclables, they will leave a tag. On the third tag they will then
> leave a $50 fine. However, with households there can be no fining. If
> they do find garbage, they will leave a tag and ask you to sort out your
> garbage that they will then collect the next week.[7]

Thank you for providing the above URL citations from the US-EPA and
Wikipedia -- neither of which provide specific ordinances (laws) for
individual US cities/townships/etc. Both state broad "guidelines" and
are non-specific. None of the above applies until bove provides exact
citations that pertain to the 'universe of bothell'.

I do agree, however, that certain materials cannot and should not be
thrown away in the trash and dumped in landfills, e.g., electronics,
batteries, heavy metals, etc., and it is illegal to do so. Hence many
areas suffer illegal dumping sites of refrigerators, furniture,
vehicular tires, medical wastes and contaminants, hazardous chemicals,
PCBs, and more in semi- and rural areas along road-side ditches and such.

In this instance of bove's absurd apple core, it's doubtful none of the
above applies. Leave it to bove to use the "apple core" (quickly
biodegradable in terms of time) as an extreme example. Oh the drama . . . .

Sky

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