Maggie's Farm

Seattle fines people for throwing food away:

Ok. so let me get this straight...
Seattle is fining you for throwing food garbage into the garbage because it goes into landfills, because it isn't utilized for compost? Do they also collect the compost (for seperate disposal)or is each resident expected and MANDATED To compost their selves?

We have friends who work in local landfills, my husband does contract work in landfills, my brother does water treatment in landfills, the amount of food that is delivered to landfills on a daily basis in this country UNDER ARMED GUARD is staggering.

The trucking industry is forced to throw away food because when a load is delivered and boxes are damaged, they are refused. I just got two cases of french fries that had NOTHING wrong with them, except the box they were carried in was dented. Not crushed, not punctured. Dented. The rendering truck is on a weekly basis going to supermarkets to take away the expired meat (because no one can afford beef anymore) and dispose of in a landfill UNDER ARMED GUARD (so no one steals this garbage).

Landfills are taxed for their methane emissions. Natural gas drillers are taxed for methane emissions (even though some of them use it to generate electricity that they sell the excess to the grid, and grow food crops themselves using the heat generated from decomposing trash).

Does Seattle also collect taxes on their own compost methane emissions?

The amount of food in this country that is thrown away DUE TO REGULATIONS helps drives the cost of food up. I heard someone yesterday on the radio say that politicians don't want you to have affordable food.
Seems they don't want you to have affordable anything. Or be productive in anyway.

But 99.9% of regulations today, they are not about safety, common sense or the environment, they are about feeding the beast.