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tert in seattle

wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 2:31:28 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I'm just glad none of you live here. You wouldn't fare very well at all.
>>
>>
> You poor dumbass. I do live in a city that has recycling.
> The green can is for recyclables, thus the term "being
> green." Plastic, cardboard, paper, tin cans, but no
> Styrofoam. We do not recycle glass here.
>
> The OTHER can is for trash which includes apple
> cores (gasp), potato peelings, carrot scrapings, onion peels,
> egg shells, and other such g-a-r-b-a-g-e. There are many
> around here who put those kitchen scraps in a composting bin
> but I assure you the recycling police will not arrest them
> if they do deposit such items in the TRASH.
>
> Why don't you give your local waste management department
> their laugh for the year and call them and ask if you can
> put an apple core in the trash? After they pick themselves
> up off the floor they will tell of course you can.

I don't think there's anyone here being arrested for putting compostables
in the trash. There might be some kind of token $1 fine or something.

You go ahead and cling to the old throwaway attitude that comforts you,
where food scraps are something icky to be put out of sight. But out of
sight includes the cost not only of fuel to transport the waste but also
the pollution that fuel generates in both extraction and consumption.
And if you're lucky enough to have local incinerators you won't be
deprived of pollution. Out of sight indeed.