The every 2 weeks thing is to encourage green bin usage as food waste tends to be the smelliest garbage most people produce. By picking up organics weekly and garbage every 2 weeks, it encourages people to use the green bin to reduce smells in their homes from rotting garbage even if they don’t actually care about composting.
Food waste is relatively heavy so the city is probably happy they don’t have to haul yours away when you have your own compost.
It just seems like an aweful lot of expected food/organic waste.
I also live in / manage a house with university students.
Once every 2 weeks for garbage is a mess already.
I already have them all tossing every organic scrap into one of my heaps.
The amount of bottled water these people consume is insane.
I understand the intent. And I’ve been way ahead of the curve for years.
But unless inorganic and non recyclable waste is cut at the source, it won’t be reduced.
I mean, I just bought some breakfast sausages a while back and Wtf they were individually wrapped in plastic inside plastic inside plastic.
I toss maybe a kitchen size bag of trash per week. I don’t know that I can reduce any more unless I eat the plastic. Well, I guess technically I already am…
Funny.
My city just 2 weeks ago began the blue/green bin program with garbage collected only every 2 weeks.
The level of stupidity and fuckery knows no bounds.
Also, I ain’t giving them my compost That’s for my garden.
The every 2 weeks thing is to encourage green bin usage as food waste tends to be the smelliest garbage most people produce. By picking up organics weekly and garbage every 2 weeks, it encourages people to use the green bin to reduce smells in their homes from rotting garbage even if they don’t actually care about composting.
Food waste is relatively heavy so the city is probably happy they don’t have to haul yours away when you have your own compost.
Municipal compost is great! I love that my trash doesn’t smell anymore, since it’s almost entirely inert. Solved our fruit fly problem, too.
Yup. And we get unlimited free compost.
I would guess it makes landfills a lot nicer, too. Less methane, less trash ‘juice’ runoff, fewer seagulls…
It just seems like an aweful lot of expected food/organic waste.
I also live in / manage a house with university students.
Once every 2 weeks for garbage is a mess already.
I already have them all tossing every organic scrap into one of my heaps.
The amount of bottled water these people consume is insane.
I understand the intent. And I’ve been way ahead of the curve for years.
But unless inorganic and non recyclable waste is cut at the source, it won’t be reduced.
I mean, I just bought some breakfast sausages a while back and Wtf they were individually wrapped in plastic inside plastic inside plastic.
I toss maybe a kitchen size bag of trash per week. I don’t know that I can reduce any more unless I eat the plastic. Well, I guess technically I already am…