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Aug 10, 2011 at 10:44 am
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Obsessed with controlling other peoples' lives.
Rats multiply
- How much would the city save if it simply encouraged citizens to not use so much crap in the first place (i.e. the REDUCE part of reduce/reuse/recycle?) Plastic bags suck, but they are a comparable needle in a haystack of ACTUAL trash that takes up significant space in our landfills.
- Why are we still buying individually wrapped items at grocery stores? Why not enforce bulk/unpackaged purchases for all foodstuffs, and people must bring their own recyclable containers?
- Why do we have garbage trucks stop at hundreds of thousands of individual locations to pick up trash/recycling when all those locations should just be dropping their trash/recycling off at designated "neighborhood depots" that reduce the need for so much stopping/starting 4+ ton vehicles?
As a sidenote, I wish my garbage company would accept credit cards. They are kind of lame. But I guess they will hopefully accept rotten meat. Ha!
Sarah, maybe I'm a little thick here (friends would say alot, OK) but I don't see how this really benefits the eniviroment, with the small exception of hauling to a closer location. I mean, Methane will be produced in one place or the other anyway, right?
Am I missing something here?
The trash goes on trains from a transfer station. One ton mile on a train produces 1/20 of the carbon from a ton mile on a truck. The new compost facility everything has to be trucked.
The new compost facility does not have methane handling.
Where do I put the dead rats I already find each week along with the used diapers and dog shit I find left my front lawn.
Bubonic plague is already in Oregon I would rather see the money spent on vector control instead of vector enhancement.
My worms already do a great job composting meat and food will they force me to use the green can.
I just used your web site and it said I could compost Sarah Mirk.
The transportation argument is potentially legitimate, but highly dependent on a lot of factors that you don't appear to have taken into consideration; distance of travel, GHG savings due to composting, landfill space savings, space savings for homeowners, not to mention compost production and the long-term reduction of all the emissions embedded in commercially produced fertilizers.