Saturday, December 19, 2009

Recycle the Old Bag

New mandate in Madison.

Starting today, you need to think twice before tossing the bag your paper came in if you live in Madison. If it’s clean, you’re now required to recycle it instead. Same goes for those grocery store bags gathering dust under your kitchen sink and the dry-cleaning bags hanging in your closet.

Madison’s newest recycling mandate, which takes effect Saturday, requires city residents to take their recyclable plastic bags to any of 10 city drop-off sites or private plastic bag recycling locations around the city.

Fines for failing to recycle bags range from $100 to $400 a year, but city recycling coordinator George Dreckmann stressed that the city had no intention of enforcing the law, saying the city would focus instead on encouraging residents to comply.

Don’t you love that?  They tell you in advance that they won’t enforce the law.  That’s nice of them.

(8) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0953 hrs
Culture + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Whether they think they can enforce it or not, I won’t comply.  If some overpaid city worker wants to dig through my trash looking for potential violations, have at it.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 1010 hrs


  2. I live in Madison, but only because my son married a girl from (t)here and they are both doctors now. I retired and help with the grandkids.

    We came from Florida.  These people in Madison are crazy.  I don’t know how my son can stand it, but he and his family are happy. But if they didn’t live here, I sure wouldn’t.

    You should have been here with the snow storm. They had the bike trails cleared off!  Streets where real people need to drive were unbelievably icy and snow covered.  Glad I stumbled on to your website. keep up the good work!

    I think you just got me started!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 1252 hrs


  3. Bags that can be recycled:

    Bread bags.

    Bags that can’t be recycled:

    Food packaging

    ....which is it?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 1321 hrs


  4. As California goes, so goes Madison.  I point out that California is headed for Default

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 1628 hrs


  5. They tell you that they won’t enforce the law today. After the law has been around for awhile and it’s entrenched, someone will see that they can generate revenue by enforcing it.

    Then you’ll be singing a different tune… maybe, with any luck, the City will go into default before then and you won’t have enough money to pay employees to enforce the laws.

    I really do love Madison. It’s the only city in the state that makes me happy that I live in Milwaukee.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 2150 hrs


  6. There they are—a bunch of wing nuts wearing their tin foil hats and freakin out about plastic bag recycling. Well well well.

    Posted by Mike on December 20, 2009 at 0039 hrs


  7. Peter said:

    “Glad I stumbled on to your website. keep up the good work!
    I think you just got me started! “

    Welcome to the cause.

    I never have a problem recycling plastic and paper bags. They burn up just like the other paper and wood in my burn barrel. The CO2 supports the trees in my woods, the rain brings the other products of combustion back down into the earth to support crops in the fields around me, and the heat from the burn barrel helps fight Gore-made ‘global cooling.’

    I often congratulate myself for being such a good example of a real ‘earth person’ as I shovel the ashes into my compost pile. Perhaps I should retire to Madison and teach them how to do these things.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20, 2009 at 1310 hrs


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