Metro, Portland’s regional planning agency, funds its hundreds of planners out of garbage fees, which is why Portland has the highest garbage collection costs in the Pacific Northwest. But Metro also encourages people to recycle in order to reduce their garbage refuse.
As a result, Portland garbage has declined enough to threaten Metro’s budget. Metro’s response, naturally, is to tax recyclables, which would probably lead some people to stop recycling.
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Since transit is partly funded out of gas taxes, if most people actually stopped driving and started riding transit (which they show no inclination of doing in Portland or elsewhere), Metro would probably start taxing transit riders. And many places use inclusionary zoning or other housing taxes to pay for affordable housing for low-income families, so if builders stopped building high-end housing and started building exclusively for low-income families, Metro would start taxing the poor to pay for their housing. It seems likely that Metro hasn’t really thought this through.
Government workers, elected officials, don’t seem to know the definition of the word “Tax”. I tell a good friend that keeps losing her keys: “Keys are key!” The very meaning of the word indicates how important they are. Perhaps that would be a good protest motto or chant: “Taxes are taxing!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-KDa_Jmok
^Recycling, especially of plastic, is a total joke and waste of time because people just can’t be bothered to do it properly. Just a half hour ago, I pulled a bunch of my neighbors’ “recycling” of our shared bin: dirty plastic food containers, dirty paper coffee cups, food-soiled paper and wrappers, a plastic water jug with a bunch of water still in it, etc. I don’t know if people are just too stupid or too lazy (or both) to recycle properly.
The free market just kills recycling because it isn’t waste if the free market can make it profitable. Aluminum cans are practicably worthless because the free market drove manufacturers to make them with so little aluminum anymore (and waste) that it hardly matters. Glass recycling is a waste and costs far more than just burying it. Most cities just grind up glass to use it instead of sand in roads.
Modern landfills don’t let anything decay so even newspapers will be readable a hundred years from now, so no point in buying “compostable” anything.
Yep. Largely due to plunging commodity prices. This same thing happened in 2007-08 just before the excrement hit the fan. The excrement is going down, now, with China’s currency falling apart, Greece and other socialist countries having to pay the piper, and the US stock market dropping precipitously.
This is it, folks, the correction that will make the last one look like a Sunday picnic. When the Fed starts devaluing the currency again, look for commodity prices to skyrocket and people to start mining landfills and reusing glass bottles like they do in Eastern Europe.
Regarding the Penn & Teller video above- at the 1:10 mark, a woman in Los Angeles is shown washing her trash in order to recycle it. Does that make any sense at all, considering that California is in the middle of a drought?