Re: No fault cell phone law

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:14:20 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:

FWIW.  Here  we're expected to put our food waste in plastic bags, tie them closed, and deposit the little bags on top of our yard waste in the yard waste container.  There was much discussion about the nature of these plastic bags and whether or not we were required to buy compostable plastic bags.

There are two kinds of people when it comes to composting ability, one of
which lives in an area where it's not feasible to compost into the ground.
I'm lucky in that I compost everything back into the ground, which requires
five things to do well, all of which I have an abundance of to do it right.
1. Layers of shredded paper/cardboard + kitchen/yard greens & browns
2. Space (to put the compost while it's being degraded by microbes)
3. Water (to enable the microbes to survive while dining on your scraps)
4. Periodic aeration (as oxygen consuming microbes do a better job)
5. Time (each bucket of compost takes about 3 months to decompose)
It would also be nice to have an outdoor industrial sized blender, as a
wood chipper is too big & messy and a kitchen blender far too small.
 

The yard waste containers are picked up by a grabber-truck and the contents dumped into the truck.  Supposedly the bags are removed by employees in hazmat suits where the yard waste trucks dump their contents.  They are then transported... somewhere... something.

I always wanted to see what it looks like at the scrap yard where they have
to separate the broken lightbulbs from the bags of dog poop & the like. :)

I think unicorn poop may be involved, but I have no actual cite for that.  I can't imagine that the little bags aren't completely torn up by rolling around in a truck full of twigs, logs, etc. but what do I know?
 I'm sure that this works as well as plastic-recycling, aren't you?

It seems that for a short while, China bought our plastics but now it's no
longer feasible where a lot seems to be dumped into the oceans instead.