The Green Police Are Here!
By Mary Theroux • Thursday May 6, 2010 1:21 PM PDT • 5 Comments
Audi’s ad agency no doubt thought itself very clever in creating the Green Police “satire” ad that aired during this year’s Super Bowl.
Turns out they were just (slightly) prescient.
Alexandria, VA now has new residential recycling bins with a built-in monitoring device allowing the city to track resident participation in the city’s recycling program
“If you know who’s participating in the programs, you can focus your education and outreach to those who are not participating,” said Stacy Herring, Alexandria’s recycling coordinator.
If you want to see what that [re-]education and outreach might look at, here’s the Audi ad:
HT: David Theroux
Tags: Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Environment, Global Warming, Personal Liberty, Police, Surveillance, The State 
Transparency works both ways. That is why with the Internet even politicians get exposed, along with abusive public servants, etc. Independent Institute gets its message out to more eyes than ever because of Facebook, email, etc. We live in exponential times and the abuses of those in authority will be exposed and their media friends will not be able to shield them.
richard dale brown | May 7, 2010 | Reply
Not to worry. Overpopulation and/or a nuclear winter will eventually solve all problems, green or otherwise.
richard | May 7, 2010 | Reply
Interesting that Ms. Herring states that the solution to non-participation is “education and outreach”. This presupposes that recycling is the best route to go...a supposition that may very well not be true. At the very least, it is not a universally shared opinion. Perhaps some organization should start education and outreach efforts on the abuses and fallacies of recycling programs.
Stu | May 11, 2010 | Reply
Penn & Teller already said it, wisely... recycling is B***s***!
Fred | May 12, 2010 | Reply