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L<\/span>et me get this straight. I do yard work and trim a bunch of bushes and trees. I have trimmings left over after doing all of this work. Now, I can’t burn this waste because of well, you know, global warming…or was it because of the threat to asthmatics? I forget.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to dispose of this waste:<\/p>\n

I have to purchase special 30 gallon paper bags from a handful of local home improvement stores.<\/p>\n

I also have to purchase stickers to place on said paper bags before I put them out with my trash. Because, apparently having the waste in the specially mandated paper bags does not properly satisfy natural waste disposal laws. These tags are to pay for something, presumably a kickback or something more likely worded as a “fuel surcharge”.<\/p>\n

Then, and ONLY then, will the company that I ALREADY PAY to pick up my trash take away the yard waste.<\/p>\n

Wait, what?<\/p>\n

I have to puchase special bags and then purchase special stickers for the bags for my contracted waste removal service to take 100% ALL NATURAL, ORGANIC, YARD WASTE to the dump for me?<\/p>\n

How in the heck do we get here? How has it become more costly to dispose of natural waste than man-made waste?<\/p>\n

I swear to all things holy that if I EVER find out these paper bags of sticks, grass, and leaves are being burned somewhere I am going to have an aneurism…or run for office.<\/p>\n

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