The City of Asheville is expected to approve a Long-Term Residential Waste Reduction Plan. In addition to educating and awaring you, the city shall “conduct [a] residential solid waste audit to establish baseline data and support long-term planning efforts.” City government will also propose annual waste reduction goals for the residential sector. Also to be implemented is a Pay As You Throw program. Neither the resolution nor the pamphlet commits the city to weighing trash curbside. Instead, the main thrust appears to be on encouraging curbside composting.
Pick a punch line or write one that’s funny, so I can stop crying:
- Wasn’t throwing rubbish in the roads cited as a cause of the plagues in the Dark Ages?
- Children will lose weight by getting sick as they use sidewalks.
- The programs should thus reduce tipping fees enough to save a lot of new monument-building and education and outreach from budget cuts with the next tax increase.
- Litter! It’s free if you don’t get caught.
