S.F. mandates composting

[Faeelin]

Whitehorse has a completely bullshit composting program.

We were given two large bins on wheels - one for garbage, one for compost.  They'll pick up one bin one week, the other bin the other week.  If you have more garbage than that - too bad, you should recycle more.

Can you not buy more trash cans? Or do the garbagemen only take the refuse in one?

[Barrister]

Whitehorse has a completely bullshit composting program.

We were given two large bins on wheels - one for garbage, one for compost.  They'll pick up one bin one week, the other bin the other week.  If you have more garbage than that - too bad, you should recycle more.

Can you not buy more trash cans? Or do the garbagemen only take the refuse in one?

Bingo.  You can only used the approved bin.  All the other garbage bins I own?  No longer acceptable.

[HisMajestyBOB]

South Korea's got something similar. It's a real pain in the ass.

[Monoriu]

I like Hong Kong's system most. 

You dump everything, and I do mean everything, into one gigantic bin, which is cleared twice every day.  And it is free. 

[Grinning_Colossus]

I thought in HK they just put all superfluous biological matter into the recycling tanks.

[chipwich]

I thought in HK they just put all superfluous biological matter into the recycling tanks.

Such as poors.

[Admiral Yi]

South Korea's got something similar. It's a real pain in the ass.

Do they still have the green shit trucks, and the green-uniformed shit carriers with their two shit buckets hanging from a pole?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

we've been sorting our trash for years (region, if not nation wide) and it really really cuts back on the amount of trash generated. We can still do better of course.
The bags cost money obviously, and if you fill them faster it'll cost you more. That is your own fault and you should indeed recycle more or compress the trash more to cut back on costs. Some personal responsability on that front in other words.

[garbon]

The bags cost money obviously, and if you fill them faster it'll cost you more. That is your own fault and you should indeed recycle more or compress the trash more to cut back on costs. Some personal responsability on that front in other words.

Would you like to come back with something relevant to the matter at hand?

I'm not sure how BB can recycle more if what he is "producing" is actual trash.

[Zanza]

I'm not sure how BB can recycle more if what he is "producing" is actual trash.

It's not just about recycling but trying to reduce the non-recyclable trash too - e.g. by setting incentives not to buy as much non-recyclable package materials or so.

In some German cities they have actually stopped to demand dividing trash into several containers because they now have high-tech trash sorting machines that can do that task prior to recycling.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The bags cost money obviously, and if you fill them faster it'll cost you more. That is your own fault and you should indeed recycle more or compress the trash more to cut back on costs. Some personal responsability on that front in other words.

Would you like to come back with something relevant to the matter at hand?

I'm not sure how BB can recycle more if what he is "producing" is actual trash.

you'd be surprised to what extent 'trash' can be sorted out, resulting in materials that can be recycled. Leaving less trash.
So maybe you could think before you talk. I'm pretty sure many would apreciate the new behaviour.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Why is it unreasonable to have bikes stop every block when cars have to? More over wouldn't that result in have lots of bicyclists killed? I don't get his argument.

His argument is that cyclists should be allowed to do whatever they want, because he's a dirty hippie.

Hard core Bike Rights types are manic on this stuff.  Freakin bikers. 

[Neil]

we've been sorting our trash for years (region, if not nation wide) and it really really cuts back on the amount of trash generated. We can still do better of course.
The bags cost money obviously, and if you fill them faster it'll cost you more. That is your own fault and you should indeed recycle more or compress the trash more to cut back on costs. Some personal responsability on that front in other words.

He lives in Whitehorse.  Why should he care how much trash he generates?

[DisturbedPervert]

Why is it unreasonable to have bikes stop every block when cars have to? More over wouldn't that result in have lots of bicyclists killed? I don't get his argument.

They don't want to stop because it is a pain in the ass to get moving again when you're on a bike.

[saskganesh]

composting lowers your garbage (tax) bills, relieves stress on landfills and provides free nutrients for gardening and agriculture. I fail to see the problem here.

BB's lifestyle is subsidized by tax dollars so of course he should do whatever I think is correct.