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:

  1. Wasn’t throwing rubbish in the roads cited as a cause of the plagues in the Dark Ages?
  2. Children will lose weight by getting sick as they use sidewalks.
  3. 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.
  4. Litter! It’s free if you don’t get caught.