Baytzim

In San Fransisco, not only is it illegal for men to marry men (thanks to Barack Obama supporters and the Mormon "Church"), it's also illegal NOT to COMPOST!

I suppose they'll raise taxes to put more compost police on the streets, and build more jail cells to hold scofflaws!

The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 Tuesday to approve Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country. It's an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.

"San Francisco has the best recycling and composting programs in the nation," Newsom said, praising the board's vote on a plan that some residents had decried as heavy-handed and impractical. "We can build on our success."

The ordinance is expected to take effect this fall.

The legislation calls for every residence and business in the city to have three separate color-coded bins for waste: blue for recycling, green for compost and black for trash.

Read more in the San Fransisco Chronicle , along with a handy chart on the dos-and-don'ts of throwing things out in SF. (I wonder if mothers who abandon their babies in garbage cans will face additional penalties for not putting them in the compost bin?)

And what if you don't comply? Well, they start with warnings, then fines, then jail!

Fines for almost all residential customers and many small businesses - anyone who generates less than a cubic yard of refuse a week - are initially capped at $100. Businesses that don't have proper bins face escalating fines up to $500.

There is a moratorium on fines until at least July 2011 for tenants and owners of multifamily buildings or multitenant commercial properties to get people used to composting. Buildings where recycling carts won't fit can get a waiver.