Rise up against trash rules

There’s a difference between being sustainable and being a chump

Re: Organics banned from your trash, Dec. 26

Fellow citizens, are you aware Vancouver has implemented a prohibition on food scraps in our garbage bins and we will incur fines if our garbage is “contaminated” with food?

A consultation report issued by Greater Vancouver, titled Organic Disposal Ban, outlines the utopian plan of environmental scientists to “educate” us, stating we will all eventually be expected to maintain composts, including people living in apartments, and be surcharged unless we deliver our organic waste to community gardens.

One business owner quoted in the report points out there will be “mandatory composting programs” for small businesses, and begrudgingly anticipates that bigger ones will find “possible exemption.”

This is beyond the reasonable limits of state action, an imposition that is undemocratic and unconstitutional. I have had just about enough with bans on mundane things such as the real fireplace in my home, the raw milk I drink, firecrackers, public consumption of alcohol, and so on.

I, for one, am discontinuing the composting of my food scraps in civil disobedience, because I know the difference between being sustainable and being a chump. What crackpot taxexempt foundation is behind this? ELIAS ISHAK Burnaby