Remember this Super Bowl ad from 2010, from Audi, depicting a not-so-distant future America under the “Green Police”?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ml54UuAoLSo%3Frel%3D0
“Battery! Battery! Let’s go! Take the house! Come on!” . . . ”Put the rind down! Sir, that’s a compost infraction!”
Funny! Scary! . . . Prophetic!
Days into enforcing its new ban on food waste, Seattle Public Utilities is flagging close to 300 customers a day — or 1 percent of its collection base — for throwing away too much food, food scraps and other compostable materials.
Effective Jan. 1, residents and business are now required to compost 90 percent or more of their food waste and food-contaminated paper napkins, paper towels and cardboard, such as pizza boxes. Those who continue to trash large amounts of food will have their garbage tagged and receive a violation notification on their bi-monthly bill.
Following a six-month education and implementation period, the city will begin issuing fines. Starting July 1, residents breaking the food waste law will receive a fine of $1 per week and multifamily and commercial customers will receive two warnings and then a $50 fine for each additional infraction.
Which lucky Seattle Public Utilities worker gets to sort through the trash-talking of Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman?