Get ready, folks, for your local government to go through your curbside trash — actually, recycling trash but trash nevertheless. This cockamamie idea is from Don Benton’s Clark County Department of Environmental Services, which is starting a pilot project for a five-year plan to educate us on just how to recycle. It began on April 13 in case you were one of the lucky ones chosen and might have caught them in your recycle bin. They will be hitting some 20,000 customers this year and if you have the wrong stuff in your recycle bin, they will leave you a note to let you know how to educate yourself.
Now, this project is not being undertaken by the private company that picks up your recycling and to which you pay monthly for the privilege, but instead will be taking more of your tax dollars to send county employees around in orange vests and maybe some marked cars to rifle through your recycle.
This is an outrage. We can finally say that Big Brother is now going through our trash because we aren’t bright enough to do it right, even after we have been bombarded with articles and fliers to educate us.
How much is this going to cost you and me? They’ll never tell us, I bet. Why not let Waste Connections pay for this plan? They are the ones who are responsible for our trash, not our county government.
