Posts Tagged ‘recycling’
Lawmakers propose laws to generate cash, control behavior
Follow the money; that’s what I’m asking you to do. In February the Connecticut State Legislature added bottled water to the states bottle bill law. It has yet to pass, but while they were at it, why not look for other ways to generate cash for the state and other special interests. Now the state…
Read MoreRecycling Gone Mad – Part 2
FoxNews.com has the AP story from Seattle where the mayor and city council president want to charge residents 20 cents for each plastic bag they used to take home their stuff. The stores and the government would share in the revenue generated by the bag sales. They also want to place a ban on foam…
Read MoreRecycling Gone Mad
Why does the government make things so difficult? By definition – since we’re talking about the government after all – this is a rhetorical question, but some people are so confused about recycling rules that they have simply given up; hiding plastics of all sorts inside of paper bags in the regular trash cans. I…
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