WOW! Talk about the overreach of the Nanny State. Now they monitor your garbage. Next, what you cook & serve for your meals? How many allotted square feet you are allowed to live in? The hours that you are allowed outside of your homes? What is next? Currently, Seattle residents are allowed to throw food and food waste – pizza boxes, dirty napkins, soiled paper towels – in the garbage. Residents are required to have a food and yard waste collection service, but they dont have to use it for food. (Backyard composters are exempt from that requirement.) Similarly, multi-family building owners are required to provide a compost collection service for residents, but residents dont have to use it. Interview: Composting during winter WXII - Greensboro, NC 00:00 / 01:56 But on Jan. 1, Seattle will ban food and food waste in trash. Enforcement wont start until July 1. At that time, any single-family trash container with more than 10 percent recyclables or food waste by volume will face a $1 fine on the next garbage bill. Multi-family property owners with too much food waste in trash will get up to two warning notices, and then a $50 fine. That system of warnings and $50 fines will also apply to businesses. Currently only businesses that serve food are required to sort food scraps and waste for composting. The new law will require all types of businesses to do that.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:41:11 +0000
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