Macnabb on the Money

Feisty ole' RDNO director Mike Macnabb has a good idea.
Just to get the attention of the new MMBC recycling managing director.

"Maybe we (should) get Allen Langdon's home address and keep sending (plastic bags and overwrap) items that now must be taken to two collection depots in Vernon, and keep sending it ..."

Yessirreebob...

Highlands Golf buys everything in bulk.
Here's a photo of the accumulation of recycle materials since May 19th, the advent of the "new program".

In the bin at right, all the plastic items that were formerly allowed to be recycled.  Now they are not.

Note that the Weston bread bags are no longer allowed in recycling!  (Note also that the George Weston company is the parent of Loblaws, one of the "corporate mafia" originators of this new program!)  Apart from my decision to, in future, no longer buy Weston bread, these materials were--prior to May 19, 2014--allowed to be recycled.

Yet another topical letter to the editor today, an excerpt of which is from Gloria Hillard:

"The blue bag system was much better for (seniors)."

Not just for seniors, Gloria.

And people are putting disallowed items into the landfill, which prompts the warning that Regional District staff will do audits at local landfills to determine if recyclable material is being trashed by residents.

Oh for heaven's sake, is that what we pay bureaucrats for?

To tear open black plastic bags at the landfill and see if there's inadmissible stuff in there.

Of course there will be!

Then, in the future, there'll be the need to hire an entirely new bureaucratic squad to levy fines to residents whose addresses they also found in those black bags.

And we'll call them bureaucratic nazis, working in tandem with the corporate mafia.

Why don't the bureaucrats just get off their high horses and threaten the B.C. government that this program must fail?

Politicians have no appetite to fight Victoria, it seems...probably because grants are at risk if they misbehave.

They'd rather browbeat residents...because they can.

Forget about looking for Langdon's home address.

"Let's send it all to Christy Clark, B.C. Premier, who OK'd this program, " says Kia, adding "we know her address."

Yup, we not only have her address.

We furnished her office.

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward R. Murrow