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Recycle, or else

By Jonathan Simor

The habits of governing through crime are hard to put down, even in liberal San Francisco. According to Cecilia M. Vega's reporting in yesterday's SFChron, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to make sure San Franciscan's recycle, and plans to do so by making sure its illegal to throw the wrong thing away. Newsom said Tuesday that his administration is drafting an ordinance that would require residents and businesses to recycle paper, plastics and other basic salvageable materials, as well as to compost food scraps and yard waste. It's the only way, he said, San Francisco will be able to reach it's self-imposed goal of having a 75 percent recycling rate by 2010."This is not, and should not be considered, punitive," Newsom said. "It's not about creating a new bureaucracy or enforcement police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).