Recycle OR ELSE!!!!!
The Logical Husband gets the credit for this find....
If these tenants are so willing to recycle, why not help them by setting up a way for them to drop it off somewhere? Why do you feel the need to force building owners to do this? Or are you in the business of putting renters out on the street - because that is what will happen if you are serious about putting liens on properties.
Or is this just another one of those unenforceable green mandates put in place to make yourself feel good? If you really were serious about your waste reduction goals, how about working WITH property owners instead of telling them what to do? You might just get a better than expected response if you did.....
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted today to require all businesses and residences to recycle and compost their garbage or face fines, which could lead to a lien on their property.
The ordinance, approved in a 9-2 vote, will force building owners to sign up for the city’s existing composting and recycling programs. The Board will deliver a final vote on the ordinance next week.
"Many tenants want to recycle and compost but the building does not offer the service,” Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “We're going to change that."
The ordinance, approved in a 9-2 vote, will force building owners to sign up for the city’s existing composting and recycling programs. The Board will deliver a final vote on the ordinance next week.
"Many tenants want to recycle and compost but the building does not offer the service,” Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “We're going to change that."
If these tenants are so willing to recycle, why not help them by setting up a way for them to drop it off somewhere? Why do you feel the need to force building owners to do this? Or are you in the business of putting renters out on the street - because that is what will happen if you are serious about putting liens on properties.
Or is this just another one of those unenforceable green mandates put in place to make yourself feel good? If you really were serious about your waste reduction goals, how about working WITH property owners instead of telling them what to do? You might just get a better than expected response if you did.....
Labels: Green Insanity
posted by The Lady Logician at
8:54 AM
2 Comments:
Well to answer your questions, all government can really do is mandate.
Great Leader and his pack of spenders have proven that there is precious little imagination in the Public Sector.
By
Kermit, at 9:34 AM
This is pretty amusing, that renters want to recycle it's just that property owners won't let them. I am sure if you actually looked into it, homeowners compliance with all the rules of multiple separations is much higher than renters because the threat of getting busted for not sorting properly (no doubt getting some fine) is much greater if you are talking about your own bin, rather than multiple, common bins used by more than 3 or 4 "households," none of whom pay a direct cost if the property is fined for improper recycling. What's next? Cameras to document who threw what at apartment complexes? When will people start talking about recycling as a tax (on our time and actual $)? The only reason why cities push it is because they make money off it. And they are bearing down harder (with fines, threats) because the value of the whole exercise is plunging with the price of the commodities involved.
By
Margaret, at 10:07 AM
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