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By SENSE:

One Man’s Trash…

…is another man’s business?

Mike Sugarman of CBS 5 San Francisco reported yesterday that San Francisco’s Conservation Core is looking through residents’ garbage to inspect if they are recycling properly. Currently, there are no fines for finding recyclable waste in trash bins (and not the blue recycling bins), but it may eventually come to that. For now, residents simply receive notices or “Friendly Reminders.”

According to Sugarman, “this is all part of San Francisco’s efforts to recycle 75% of its waste by 2010.”

This investigation of people’s trash appears to be a new policy.

Is this good green governing… or people’s privacy rights being thrown out?

SF ‘Garbage Cops’ May Be Digging In Your Trash [CBS 5.com]
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