Quote:This is how I feel about it.

 

Kind of like how you can't legislate morality, you can't legislate people to recycle or compost. Heck, could you see composting working in cities like LA, NY, Chicago, Baltimore? Or any city for that matter? There is no education or infrastructure for it. Most people wouldn't even know what to do. They think composting is throwing food into a pile in the yard. That would get nasty and unsanitary real quick.

 

Also, there are towns, like mine, who don't offer recycling services for those who live out of city limits and have no recycling center for those who would be willing to take it in. You can't not offer a service then tax or fine folks for not doing whatever it your taxing or fining them for. 

 

Excuse my mini-rant: a pet peeve of mine - of course you can legislate morality - that's what laws do. Now, will many break the law? Yes. But that doesn't mean you take the law off the books. (And we can have a long talk about if they should be on the books in the first place.)

 

I think your view is common and similar to many, many of us. We want to do right/good, we're just not sure it's feasible. Or maybe we're just lazy.

 

I think most of us subscribe to the standard American outlook - we assume some form of technology will be devised at the last minute to save us.

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