Odds Mr. Nanny State composts somewhere between 1-2%.

Via NY Times:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting.

Dozens of smaller cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, have adopted rules that mandate recycling of food waste from homes, but sanitation officials in New York had long considered the city too dense and vertically structured for such a policy to succeed.

Recent pilot programs in the city, though, have shown an unexpectedly high level of participation, officials said. As a result, the Bloomberg administration is rolling out an ambitious plan to begin collecting food scraps across the city, according to Caswell F. Holloway IV, a deputy mayor.

The administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year. That amount would represent about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.

The residential program will initially work on a voluntary basis, but officials predict that within a few years, it will be mandatory. New Yorkers who do not separate their food scraps could be subject to fines, just as they are currently if they do not recycle plastic, paper or metal.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/17/nanny...st-food-scraps/

Yeah I read the article on NY Times and every single commenter thought it was just the greatest thing ever. In fact you can "freeze your food scraps" so they won't go bad! Don't cha' know!

Awesome. Now all the Libs are going to have to have a compost pile in their 20 ft by 20 ft apartments. Right next to their Hookahs.

This is what liberalism has come to, you can't even throw your olive pits in the damn trash without being fined for it!

Don't these people have anything better to do?

Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1

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The residential program will initially work on a voluntary basis, but officials predict that within a few years, it will be mandatory. New Yorkers who do not separate their food scraps could be subject to fines, just as they are currently if they do not recycle plastic, paper or metal.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/17/nanny...st-food-scraps/

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #4

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Awesome. Now all the Libs are going to have to have a compost pile in their 20 ft by 20 ft apartments. Right next to their Hookahs.

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Why is this thread in "What's Right with Politics"? It's pretty much a given that an article on a Ukase from diminutive Tsar Bloomie I does NOT belong anywhere near "What's Right with Politics". "Whacky with politics", probably. "Wrong with Politics", so sure, you couldn't get a New York bookie to lay you odds against.

Sorry PzLdr I was laughing so hard I hit the wrong button