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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
I'd much rather my neighbor with 4 kids and 2 dogs to have to pay more for garbage collection than my girlfriend and I. Every week, we have a full barrel of recyclables and half a barrel of garbage. My neighbors put 3 barrels of garbage on the curb every single week and don't recycle a damn thing.
I think the bag or tag method is far better than taxing each household. With a bag or tag method, people pay for what they use and have an incentive to (excuse the cliche) reduce/reuse/recycle.
It doesn't make any sense to me for a widowed grandmother who might have a small shopping bag worth of garbage/week to pay the same amount for trash collection as a family of 6.
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This is the part that is inequitable. Families of four or more paying the same as two or one even. The bags make things ore equitable. Also if one has not been recycling it certainaly forces one to recycle after trash bags and fees are in place. In East Bridgewater, Mass. where I live we started both at approximately the same time. Having started the bags just prior though the town cut down 55 % of the amount of rubbish thrown into the dump every week when we started mandatory recycling. Of the 100 % before recycling that went into the dump only 45 % did after, meaning 55 % went towards recycling. The only problem I see with the cost is that towns cannot add that to the taxes to make it deductible.
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