"Dear Tazewell County Attorney's Office," my latest Facebook post begins. "We did receive your letter regarding our waste disposal practices. Compliance with this will not be an issue on our end. You can expect an extra two hundred pounds of solid, possibly infectious waste to be deposited in the municipal landfill every week. This will actually be easier for us than our current method of burning organic refuse. All we have to do now is dump and run, and fill out some kind of annual report. You forget we're a 501c3, state-reporting agency. Submitting annual reports is what we do."
Who says comedy has to be fiction? This happened. This is real. I really did get a certified letter through the U.S. Mail telling me I can't burn dog poop. These people are serious. I can't help but wonder, though, about that poor secretary having to sit there typing that up with a straight face. "Sorry, Tazewell ARC, but your weekly shit-e-ques are big no-nos. Can't have all that processed beef byproduct going up in smoke. Gotta guarantee the landfill rats get dinner, and that the scavenging coyotes and fox and raccoon pick up all those canine diseases from your quarantine room. We made darn sure it's illegal to actually destroy your pathogens. You know how those tree-huggers came down on us about them pearlymussels. . .can't take no chances they're going to complain about our parvoviruses, too."
Tazewell ARC tends to be very outspoken about problems in our community, particularly those concerning animals. This keeps us crossways not only with community members, but with community leaders and elected officials. Much of the controversy is documented here, on Steemshelves. But I'm in it to win it, and in truth, hauling our solid waste to the dump rather than burning it isn't a big enough hassle to quibble over. We will comply. Eventually it will be burned at the landfill, too, at taxpayer expense, with no added benefit to the environment. This is just one more example of bureaucratic insanity and the failure to apply good sense.
non-residential solid waste generators.
That's a whole lot of words for "dog".
The government can't even economize a frigging noun.
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^^^ That's my witness partner right there. ^^^ He always knows exactly how to sum it up.
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Best thing I've seen all day!
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I know! 😂
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Dumb of them to take action over something as trivial.
But don't get caught with them and don't obsess over it. Just send 'em the poo like you wrote in the reply.
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That's definitely the plan. They asked for it, they got it. LOL
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Yeah seems much better all the way around to burn it rather than put it in landfill. Crazy. Thanks @rhondak for sharing.
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Hah. I am happily ignoring poopgate and just being happy you like your little coon figure. ;-)
But anyway, at least you no longer need to mess with burning or worrying about fire safety if you get a dry spell. I will say most private burning is illegal here in Denmark--because the proper disposal places have complicated filter systems on their burn centers to limit the pollutants released into the environment. There may actually be good reason for this ruling, even if it seems silly with biological poop and primarily cardboard for bedding.
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Yeah, I see some logic in it, too, just was never aware of such an ordinance or that a home-based rescue would even be subject to it. Sadly, the local landfill is just a big pile of refuse that gets burned or buried with no sophisticated filtering system or anything like that. There's no advantage to burning it there as opposed to here. My thinking is like yours on the matter, but I'll still have a little fun with it. I mean--who could pass up on "Poopgate?" The opportunity is just too sweet. LOL
And yes indeed ... I suspect the little coon figure does look a bit familiar to you. :-)
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At least it is just an informative letter and not a fine or anything.
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LOL this the first time am seeing this unbelievable @rhondak but in a way they have a point BUT it's still funny...
nice write up
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Dumb of them to take action over something as trivial.
But don't get caught with them and don't obsess over it. Just send 'em the poo like you wrote in the reply.
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My Cat :)
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