Californians to Waste More Time Recycling
Monday, January 17, 2022
If you live in California, rev up your garbage disposal!
It's that, or waste time and effort storing your food waste as if it were gold so you can have it picked up for recycling:
Whether you regard this as a good idea or agree with me that recycling is a wasteful activity, this will be at your own expense as a taxpayer, of course.Senate Bill 1383 requires all residents and businesses to separate such "green" waste from other trash, but the program will be rolled out gradually for homes and businesses in the coming months, with the actual startup date varying, depending on the location of your home or business.
Penn and Teller's lineup of trash cans with timed sorting and a bullhorn for errors captures the absurdity of recycling. But only free men have the luxury of laughing at the absurd. (Screen Capture by Gus Van Horn, via Penn and Teller: Bullshit, S. 2, Ep. 5. I believe this to be permissible as Fair Use under U.S. copyright law.)
Fines can be levied for failing to separate organic refuse from other trash. But those charges aren't scheduled to begin until 2024. CalRecycle, the state agency overseeing the change, has lots of information about the new requirements on its website. [bold added]
Many, if not most people will see this as a good idea, although it in fact entails the threat of government force to prescribe a small amount of labor in addition to theft in the bargain. Even if I believed that global warming were an immanent threat and that diverting the greenhouse gases from food decomposition would actually make a difference, I would oppose this law.
There is no such thing as a valid excuse for even the slightest degree of slavery, and this law is no exception.
Shame on California for this latest in its assault on liberty.
-- CAV
2 comments:
Yo, Gus, yeah. I received a pamphlet from the state a couple of months ago giving all the instructions for this ghastly bit of anti-humanity overreach. I saw the date it becomes obligatory and breathed easier since we should have left this scene like a drama queen by then: I'd hate to be a condemned as a criminal for violating such a ****** ******* ******* ******** stupid, stupid, stupid, malignant, malevolent, wrong and wrong-headed piece of dictatorial corruption of the law, and it's not like I'd obey the damn thing, so you know one of the local lefty Karens would make sure I was haled into court for that or for something else like crimes against humanity because the tip of my big toe was a mere 5'11" from her. (And then if she complained before she went to the police, I'd offer to make the toe much much closer to her if she liked, and it'd be like me getting hanged at Nuremberg as a result.)
"[I] breathed easier since we should have left ... by then,"
Hah! That, and they might wake up and realize that they need to outlaw garbage disposals, in case any of the proles still have electricity and running water enough to use one.
Or not. It's two points of failure and it is California. Maybe they like the odds.
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