It's not like you're the poster boy for urban sheep who are perfectly happy to stand on one foot and cluck like a chicken if their city leaders tell them to. I doubt anyone's asking you to sort your trash into a dozen colored bins or be fined. If you compost, it's because you want to.

This story wasn't about real conservation. It's about ignorant idiots who have power enough to make their random whims into law. In this case, eliminating the one material from landfills that actually has a shot at turning back into healthy dirt, and probably at ruinous expense. Why? The "greenhouse boogeyman" again.

I have a park nearby that used to be a landfill. They covered it with grass and trees when it was full, and laced it with a network of pipes that taps the methane from the buried biowaste, and they burn it for energy. Since it comes from biowaste, it's essentially CO2 neutral, if anyone cares.

As for your mostly-irrelevant post, it's interesting that painting someone with a broad political brush is only called "McCarthyism" when it refers to leftism. It's also worth noting that McCarthy's existence did not mean there were no such things as communists, or collectivist idiots.