According to a recent report by the Associated Press, residents in Seattle will be fined if they remove food waste from their trash. A new ordinance which goes into effect next year, will impose a $1 fine on violators for each occurrence of having more than 10% of trash that could be composted.
San Francisco also has a mandatory composting ordinance.
As usual I have questions. Because meat, bones and skins don’t compost, are they allowed? Vegetables that are heavily seasoned with butter or meat scraps won’t compost either. Are the collectors going to test or taste them to see if they pass. And, how do you tell exactly how much is 10%? Won’t it take a lot of extra time to go through trash just to issue a $1 fine?
Let’s say that homeowners comply, what are they going to do with all the compost? Put it on their flower beds or yard. What happens if you don’t have flower beds or much of a lawn? I suppose you could put it on your neighbors. Knowing me as I do, I would probably just put the food scraps in my neighbor’s yard to begin with.
Why doesn’t Seattle also require composting toilets? Yes, they do make these things.
That way they could get to residents, coming and going.
PMO
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