Friday, October 26, 2012

Brother in your Yellow Recycle Bin

Police State Culture                            


Big Brother in your Yellow Recycle Bin
Res Ipsa Loquitor

About 50,000 radio tracking devices have been distributed to homes in Anne Arundel County -

“Under what conceivable reason would I want anyone looking at my trash that closely?” Morrison said. “I don’t like the idea of our government monitoring us like this.”
including to a residence on Bay Street in Pasadena.

But when county trucks came to Candy Morrison’s home to deliver bright yellow bins, she told workers to take hers away.

She doesn’t want one.

Not after she learned the chips, known as RFIDs, can be used to transmit information about recyclables from each address. [Full Horror]


The county's response is more bizarre

To activate the chips, the county must purchase a computer system to collect and store the data. Also “readers” must be installed on collection trucks to identify the cans.

Diehl said the county has no plans at this time to activate the chips.

“Right now, they’re useless,” he said. “It’s just another part of the container, no more invasive than the handle or the wheel.”

So, the county spent a trillion dollars on recycle bins with radio monitors, but the radios are not activated and the county have no intention to do so.  Welcome to Maryland.




13 comments:

gadfly said...

Here is an original idea. We should adopt "single stream recycling" throughout the U.S. Homeowners should dump their garbage unsorted into a brown, chip-less, garbage - uh, sorry, "recycling" cans for pickup weekly by a single garbage truck. Each truckload of garbage, I mean, "recycled materials" can be offered for sale to private sorters. Those truckloads not purchased should be dumped into today's safe, modern landfills.

Then when we run short of sand from which to make glass, we can mine the landfills for glass. Wood shortages for paper manufacturing can be handled the same way.

This perfect solution reduces the cost of garbage pickup, frees homeowners from guilt and bother and transfers the cost from us to the recyclers who have been ripping us off for years.

pdwalker said...

Give me cheap enough energy, and I'll turn any landfill into a pure gold mine with everything recyclable and no waste.

The rest of this stuff is just nonsense by comparison.

Vladtheimp said...

I agree with gadfly with one exception - the single stream trucks should be driven to the nearest prison and the garbage sorted by the inmates on their work detail. They can earn time to be spent on the nautilus machines and big screen color tv's.

Steve in Greensboro said...

When the government starts tracking my garbage, it is time to move.

Anonymous said...

When I think of government, I think of sh*tcan. Seems about right.
Tim

Anonymous said...

When Gov't starts tracking my garbage,,,,it's time to remove that Gov't.

there,fixed it for you.


firefirefire

Anonymous said...

Recycling is uneconomic and often not ecologically sound.

http://mises.org/media/4281/The-Economics-of-Recycling

The Economics of Recycling

Freddie Sykes

I-RIGHT-I said...

I keep my "recycle" tote in the back yard. I'm using it as a compost container on wheels. Thanks city of Sugar Land!

Anonymous said...

Two pound hammer outside body dolly inside. Apply liberaly to raised dots on container. Only took two times and they stopped replacing bin.

IdahoHunter

DougM said...

SCOTUS says the FedGov can make us buy a trash-collection service.
(What? Well, how does that differ from Obamacare?)

Helly said...

Burying the lede again, Rodge.

The only dif between RFID and bar codes is the electromagnetic frequency they reflect. These devices identify, not tract things. Only moonbats get wound up about having an ID number attached to their publicly owned and serviced garbage can. Now that we have a generation of numbskulls who can't read numbers, we're stuck with automation.

The real story here is obedience-to-government training. Just like the security theater in airports, home trash segregation makes no practical sense. The only point is to maintain compliance with authority.

Jess said...

I already have "single stream" recycling in my house. I pee a single stream; the recycled beer is sent down a pipe with a simple push on a small lever; the water is processed, treated, chlorinated, and discharged into the river, where fish breed without abandon.

Juice said...

Being from CA I'd say the ultimate goal is preparation for further fines and taxation if one is not "complying". Spend your tax dollars now collect twice as much later. It's why that entire state IS the garbage can.

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