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October 12, 2003
I need to catch up
Breean is becoming extremely prolific with her online photography.
Posted by sam at 08:16 PM | Comments (1)
Heard from another student in econ
Ithaca, NY has a strange trash policy. Instead of paying increased taxes to pay for trash services, residents are required to buy $2 'trash tags' from city hall and stick these on each trash can every trash day. The purpose is 1) to reduce overall trash by inducing people to recycle; and 2) to insure everyone pays for the amount of trash they actually produce.
There's one interesting side effect though. You'll notice that - especially in areas with a lot of students - public trash cans are often overflowing. To avoid paying the two bucks many people try to dump household trash in public places. To compensate some public trash cans have signs that say: "No household trash."
Posted by sam at 05:47 PM | Comments (1)