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Image © 2007 E. J. Barnes. Published in The Recorder 10 August 2007.
Greenfield and several other Franklin County towns instituted "Pay-Per-Throw," which calls for only having trash haulers pick up trash in authorized bags (which cost more than commercial trash bags). The money goes to the town, and the town wins twice over: Raising volume-based revenue for what used to be a free service, and encouraging recycling, the materials from which in turn can be sold. But some resented the buck or two it cost per trash bag, and took to throwing their trash by the side of the road, in fields, making unauthorized use of commercial dumpsters, etc. Since such activities have to take place when no one is looking, one had to wonder, when gas prices were rising, when it would cease to be cost-effective to break the law. This cartoon appeared in the summer of 2007, but gas prices were even worse in the summer of 2008.