You can literally tell which municipalities in my state have been hoodwinked by the Karens into adopting "pay as you throw". They're the ones where there's trash everywhere.

It's like these people can't think two steps ahead (I'd go so far as to say that's the defining feature of regulatory policy in this state). You just gave people a financial incentive to litter and dump.

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fakedang a day ago | parent [-]

Which state so I can avoid it?

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freedomben 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Alaska was like this. Taking your trash to the transfer station or dump was expensive, so people throw it all over the place, trashing the highways and vacant land, or they use burn barrels and cause massive pollution torching plastic and other things. It's pretty horrifying to see such beautiful areas littered up :-(

	▲	cucumber3732842 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Alaska has an excuse for it to be expensive. They're far away from everything. Most of the US East coast has no such excuse.