On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:11:42 +0200, "Giusi" > wrote:

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>"Boron Elgar" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>> It is so anti-recycling to use this set up, that I think it's a joke.
>> Again, it is certainly allowing some folks to save stuff for compost
>> in a way that is convenient for them, but to me, it just doesn't cut
>> it.
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>Don't you think that would depend on whethwer the person has his own compost
>bin a few steps from his house or if as in many cities composting materials
>are picked up weekly?

It could depend on any number of things, of course. Nevertheless, in
my own kitchen, I do not keep garbage/compostables/recyclables sitting
around in my kitchen. They are taken outside to the garbage cans or
the compost bin or the recycling containers. If someone has some
different set up, more power to them.


>Your solution would also depend on being able or willing to use 3 pounds of
>anything, let alone cottage cheese! On occasion I use an old plastic ice
>cream box if I am producing way too much composting materials, as yesterday
>when I cleaned artichokes. My composting bin is SS with a plastic liner,
>not very big. It gets dumped and then showered at the outdoor shower.
>Those corn based bags cost a fortune here.
>
The key is not to use a cottage cheese container - the sweet, green
key, at least to me, is using something that is, itself, recycled
from a previous use and does not require newly manufactured materials
(in the case of the KA can, both bags AND filters) to function.

In your case, the municipality is picking up compostable materials, so
you need to store them until they are fetched. In my case, the goodies
go into the backyard compost bins and are turned into gardening
material. I USE that stuff. It becomes black gold and, in turn, helps
feed my family. Even so, were I putting compostables together for
weekly collection, I'd still get it the hell out of my kitchen daily.
I do not have an air conditioned kitchen and the last thing I want to
do is have fruit peelings and coffee grounds and egg shells festering
and attracting fruit flies in 90 degree heat.

There are 4 adults here, each of us likes cottage cheese, and 3 lb
containers are frugal and convenient in this home. If you have smaller
family food needs, you likely produce smaller amounts of compostables,
too.

So many foods come in plastic tubs as the only container choice, that
acquiring them isn't difficult or sometimes even avoidable. Even silly
me, who strolls into the market with her own bags, and carefully
chooses minimal packaging as much as possible, winds up with tons of
packing materials. I have my own rules about such items if I cannot
avoid them easily...re-use the packaging for some other purpose.
That's my own version of religion. TWIAVBP.

To recycle or not is something each person decides for herself, and
the decisions as to how it is done if that choice is made, are
personal also, barring local regs. It just makes me say a big, fat ,
"Huh?" when I find out that the recycling container requires a
continuous supply of manufactured goods to function. Again, if you
are maintaining/dumping into a container that gets collected by the
town at some time interval, things may differ.

Boron