A Georgia county wants to get its residents to recycle more--but...:
"While neighboring counties encourage recycling, Gwinnett County’s new solid waste management ordinance puts teeth into it. The ordinance provides for a civil fine of $500 for violations, which includes those who fail to “source separate residential recovered materials"...“We don’t intend for this to be the garbage gestapo, running around, looking in people’s garbage about what’s there and what’s not there,” said Connie Wiggins, executive director of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, which is administering Gwinnett’s waste disposal program."
Yes, well, I'm sure the lady doesn't "intend" for that to happen.
The problem however is that this law makes it possible for there to be abuses of the law, for "garbage gestapo" types to run rampant, for neighbors who don't like each other to use this law to accuse the other and cause them a nice pile of trouble.
Beware of the garbage gestapo trend...
