Yesterday, Asheville kicked off a swell program. Garbage snoopers will soon be cruising through neighborhoods in a Prius and gifting households who put their recycling in order with a $50 gift certificate to Ingles. It is unclear how taxpayers and the corporate partners, Ingles and Coca-Cola, are splitting the costs. But rest assured, any of the city’s expenses will be picked up from savings, of course.
While on the subject, I would like to personally thank the city’s Chief Sustainability Officer Maggie Ullman for being very proficient in the application of mathematics as a means of garnering information. It is so pleasant to sit through a government meeting and hear somebody reference base levels and describe goals in terms of well-defined variables. People in the audience weren’t looking at each other last night mouthing, “15% of WHAT?”
