I would certainly prefer that approach than the green bin (organics), black bin (paper), blue bin (glass, metal and plastic) and garbage (everything else?) system that we have. Too many bins!
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I would certainly prefer that approach than the green bin (organics), black bin (paper), blue bin (glass, metal and plastic) and garbage (everything else?) system that we have. Too many bins!
The idea is that they don't want people to have to think about what goes in the bin. If it isn't garbage throw it in and have it sorted out later. It saves money because we just have 2 96 gallon bins. One for garbage and the other for recycling. The garbage truck comes once a week the recycling truck every 2 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_stream_recycling
Some of the houses in my city have garbage disposals/Insinkerators. Some don't. Some people compost. Some don't. KnightWRX needs to relax his attitude a little. Not every city is completely advanced in waste disposal strategies. The world is moving in that direction. Most of my neighbours and I compost - some people in this neighbourhood don't. Every house in Calgary has weekly recycling and garbage pickup service.
We have "single stream" in my community. As in, there is a single stream of cars up the driveway to the recycle depot. We don't have pickup at all, so as part of the errands people run in town is a stop at the depot. Where we do our own sorting. Something like a dozen+ different bins, plus they take paints, electronics, and batteries. It's a bit of a pain, but it's a chance to stop and chat politics.
All beverage bottles (glass, plastic, and iirc, tetra-paks) (alchoholic and non-alchoholic) can go back to the store for a refund (except for dairy, which can only be recycled). The stores that sell newspapers will also put the sales flyers into their recycle bin if you want. Apparently the stores here will only sell your newspaper if you take back the flyers the customers don't want.
Considering how inconvenient this can be, we still have an above average rate of recycling. But, then again we voted in a Green Party MP (first Green Party elected in North America!) over a sitting incumbent Federal Cabinet Minister.
Go Canucks!
Many people don't realize it, but a great deal of stuff that goes down the drain after being chewed up by a disposal comes from the dishwasher. The drain from the dishwasher dumps into the drain above the disposal, so that the chunks (or whatever) that are washed of the pots and pans (or whatever) can get ground up in the disposal. And it's pretty well-estsblished that a dishwasher uses less water than washing and rinsing by hand.
That's why I use heated drying, gotta balance out that green ****.
oooohhhhh ----- I'm gonna hafta plant an extra dozen or so trees now.....
Our disposal is buried beneath the strainer, so it gets rare use. But yesterday, I realized that the waste from our fish and mussels dinner would be sitting for a full week until the next organic waste pick-up, so the empty shells went into the freezer for the week, and the mushy stuff down the sink. All drains lead to the ocean.
Be free, fishy guts. Be free!
Be free, fishy guts. Be free!
I have a compost bin in the backyard. It does NOT smell and gives me plenty of fresh organic material for my garden and lawn!
I also use a disposal and in fact, the materials that eventually reach the sewage treatment plant in many cities in the US, get turned into a compost-fertilizer, so flushing it down the drian isn't a big issue.
And the city pays US to recycle here in Houston! Through a company called RecycleBank, I get a point for every pound of recycled material I put out every 2 weeks. I can get gift cards, coupons and such. And it's single-stream, so everything goes in our single 90+gallon recepticle.
The effect of all of this is generally only 2 tall kitchen bags of actual trash each week.
I also use a disposal and in fact, the materials that eventually reach the sewage treatment plant in many cities in the US, get turned into a compost-fertilizer, so flushing it down the drian isn't a big issue.
And the city pays US to recycle here in Houston! Through a company called RecycleBank, I get a point for every pound of recycled material I put out every 2 weeks. I can get gift cards, coupons and such.
And it's single-stream, so everything goes in our single 90+gallon recepticle.The effect of all of this is generally only 2 tall kitchen bags of actual trash each week.
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