The government will soon be going through your trash and it is already starting in Cleveland, Ohio.
The city is planting microchips in the residents recycling trashcans...(I am not making this up)...to monitor how often they recycle trash. If the city decides that you are not recycling your share of material they will send a crew over to your house and go through your trash to see if you are putting recyclable material in your regular trashcan. If they find more than 10% recyclable material in your trash can, you will be fined $100, according to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens.
Now pay particular attention to the next part of the story.
The Cleveland City Council approved spending $2,500,000.00 (that is 2.5 million dollars) for the cost of planting the microchips inside the special trashcans. They did not provide an estimate of the cost of paying "trash supervisors" to go through people's trashcans, nor did they say how they will measure the amount of recyclable material.
I assume it will be determined by weight.
Let's imagine how this process will work.
Let's say that you go on vacation and don't put out your recycle trashcan for a couple of weeks. The computer in the city trash truck that is monitoring your trashcan usage, notices that they haven't picked up your recycle trashcan for some time. For reasons that you will soon understand the city must next obtain a search warrant. With that warrant in hand, a deputy sheriff and the city trash commissioner are dispatched with a special truck to your address. They arrive at your home and knock on your door. They must not provide any advance notice of their arrival or else you might presort your trash before they arrive, thereby defeating the entire purpose of the raid and also forfeiting the $100 fine. Thus the reason for the warrant. Since you and your wife may not be home during the day, the city worker and the deputy enter your back yard with the warrant and legally move the trashcan to the front street.
As your neighbors watch in amazement the trash supervisor first must weigh the contents of the trashcan. To accomplish that they must empty the contents onto a scale that records the total weight of your trash. Next they move your trash onto a special sorting table and sort it into two receptacles. In one of the containers they place choice pieces of recyclable items including glass, metal cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard. If any of the paper or cardboard happens to be wet, the trash supervisor will smile, knowing the moisture will add to the weight of the recyclable items he is hoping to find. Keep in mind that everyone in your neighborhood will watch as the trash supervisor sorts through the remnants of last night's dinner and other items that you thought were private. If you have wrapped any of the items in a bag or in any way tried to conceal them from the inspector, the containers will be opened to confirm that they do not contain recyclable material.
You might imagine that quite a crowd might gather around the truck as the inspector works. The deputy who accompanied the inspector will also take care of any necessary crowd control, using his Taser if necessary to keep homeless people from grabbing plastic bottles or aluminum cans.
After all the material has been sorted, the "trash supervisor" pushes a special button on the trash computer which uses proprietary software and trash algorithms to calculate how much trash has been placed in the wrong trashcan. If the number exceeds 10% you will receive a $100 fine on your next bill from the trash company.
And don't you even think about not paying the fine! If you do, they city will place a lien on your house and take special steps to destroy your credit rating and reputation.
So there you have it. Sounds bizarre you may think. Never happen, you say! Not in my lifetime, you hope!
BUT IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING!
Link to Source - Cleveland's Trash Czar
Last year they city of Cleveland, Ohio, issued 2900 tickets for violations of the city's trash collection code. They say that this number is nearly five times more tickets than they issued the previous year. According to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens, his "Division of Waste Collection is on track to meet is goal of issuing 4000 citations in 2010."
I don't know about you, but I firmly believe that these environmentalists are totally out of control!
Don't let this situation get any worse. Make sure your voice is heard in the next election!
As your neighbors watch in amazement the trash supervisor first must weigh the contents of the trashcan. To accomplish that they must empty the contents onto a scale that records the total weight of your trash. Next they move your trash onto a special sorting table and sort it into two receptacles. In one of the containers they place choice pieces of recyclable items including glass, metal cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard. If any of the paper or cardboard happens to be wet, the trash supervisor will smile, knowing the moisture will add to the weight of the recyclable items he is hoping to find. Keep in mind that everyone in your neighborhood will watch as the trash supervisor sorts through the remnants of last night's dinner and other items that you thought were private. If you have wrapped any of the items in a bag or in any way tried to conceal them from the inspector, the containers will be opened to confirm that they do not contain recyclable material.
You might imagine that quite a crowd might gather around the truck as the inspector works. The deputy who accompanied the inspector will also take care of any necessary crowd control, using his Taser if necessary to keep homeless people from grabbing plastic bottles or aluminum cans.
After all the material has been sorted, the "trash supervisor" pushes a special button on the trash computer which uses proprietary software and trash algorithms to calculate how much trash has been placed in the wrong trashcan. If the number exceeds 10% you will receive a $100 fine on your next bill from the trash company.
And don't you even think about not paying the fine! If you do, they city will place a lien on your house and take special steps to destroy your credit rating and reputation.
So there you have it. Sounds bizarre you may think. Never happen, you say! Not in my lifetime, you hope!
BUT IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING!
Link to Source - Cleveland's Trash Czar
Last year they city of Cleveland, Ohio, issued 2900 tickets for violations of the city's trash collection code. They say that this number is nearly five times more tickets than they issued the previous year. According to Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens, his "Division of Waste Collection is on track to meet is goal of issuing 4000 citations in 2010."
I don't know about you, but I firmly believe that these environmentalists are totally out of control!
Don't let this situation get any worse. Make sure your voice is heard in the next election!
