Seattle compost rule thrown out by judge as unconstitutional

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20. Two Comments, First this may be based on Washington's Constitution.

While the US Supreme Court has ruled that under the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION you have no expectation of privacy to garbage you put on the street to be picked up, state courts can use their own State Constitutions to find that such a right to privacy does exists, even of the wording in both constitutions are the same. Thus this MAY be based on the Constitutions of the State of Washington NOT the Federal Constitution.

Second, there is no Constitutional right to trash pickup. All the local municipality has to do is pass a law abolishing garbage pickup UNLESS you sign a waiver that whatever you put out as trash becomes the property of the City and the City has the right to exam it to see if the city WANTS it. No wavier, no Garbage pickup. At the same time the City can MANDATE removal of any trash in your yard and MANDATE any trash be disposed of in a licensed trash disposal area. i.e you can NOT leave the Trash around your home, but MUST have it removed to whoever is handling the trash for that local government. If you do NOT want the city looking into your trash, you have to haul it away to the dump (Or to where and how the local government handle its trash) and pay any dumping fees. If you want privacy you better be ready to pay for it.