Saturday August 21, 2010, 9:22 am
IN OTHER WORDS THE VIDEO IS STATING THIS : and it's coming to your city

AboutContactArchivesRSSColumnsPhotos Michelle Malkin Your porkulus dollars at work: Eco-snitch trash cans
By Michelle Malkin • August 20, 2010 12:58 PM

Lots of buzz today about the microchip-implanted trash bins in Cleveland that will tell city collectors when residents haven’t recycled. The Cleveland Dealer reports today:

It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t.

The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.

The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.
The city expanded a pilot program for the carts and will now use $2.5 million in local tax money to fund the expansion.

Guess what else?

You are helping pay for this eco-snitch program in other cities with federal stimulus money.

From the Coburn-McCain stimulus waste report released earlier this month, we learn that $500,000 of the porkulus went to Dayton, Ohio for nosy trash cans.

Yeah. It stinks. And taxpayers don’t need any high-falutin’ technology to detect it.

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Saturday August 21, 2010, 11:03 am
And... Robyn, can't we get rid of these spying devices?

Saturday August 21, 2010, 11:59 am
Another way to get money for the corporation or government.

Saturday August 21, 2010, 12:15 pm
I doubt it Pars whole govermental plan, should have heard the video alexed talked about on it, a couple in Ohio was arrested because they failed to recycle something , just another form of Gvermental control only at state level.

Sunday August 22, 2010, 4:43 am
This looks like a useful use of this chip. What is wrong with it?

Sunday August 22, 2010, 9:46 am
ppl r going to jail because of it, and it is also being used to do more than track your garabe, it is being used to spy on people and it not soley for " lets see if you recycle"..A couple in Ohio were arrested because their garbage busted them on something.