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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.
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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.
ReplyDeleteThen 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.
Give me cheap enough energy, and I'll turn any landfill into a pure gold mine with everything recyclable and no waste.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of this stuff is just nonsense by comparison.
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.
ReplyDeleteWhen the government starts tracking my garbage, it is time to move.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of government, I think of sh*tcan. Seems about right.
ReplyDeleteTim
When Gov't starts tracking my garbage,,,,it's time to remove that Gov't.
ReplyDeletethere,fixed it for you.
firefirefire
Recycling is uneconomic and often not ecologically sound.
ReplyDeletehttp://mises.org/media/4281/The-Economics-of-Recycling
The Economics of Recycling
Freddie Sykes
I keep my "recycle" tote in the back yard. I'm using it as a compost container on wheels. Thanks city of Sugar Land!
ReplyDeleteTwo pound hammer outside body dolly inside. Apply liberaly to raised dots on container. Only took two times and they stopped replacing bin.
ReplyDeleteIdahoHunter
SCOTUS says the FedGov can make us buy a trash-collection service.
ReplyDelete(What? Well, how does that differ from Obamacare?)
Burying the lede again, Rodge.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteBeing 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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