Happy Mandatory Composting Day!
Wednesday marks the much anticipated (at least on this blog) debut of San Francisco’s non-elective composting program. All households and businesses must participate in the 3-bin system, one of which is a green cart for food scraps and other organics.
The preparations for this day have been rather feverish, recently, and it seems like the city is ready. The question is: are its citizens?
The legislation provides potential fines for noncompliance to give the program some teeth. Yet, there’s a moratorium on fines until at least July 2011 and even then they’ll be capped at $100 for households.
What do you make of this kind of enforced green behavior? Too heavy-handed and will prompt a backlash? Or necessary to keep the most food out of the landfill?
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