Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
I got my brother this for Christmas:

It holds 11 Cubic Feet and works great. His current compost is just a pile.
i thought it was a astrolabe and was all excited, then i realized what it was and though still excited, it was for a different reason.
Quote Originally Posted by Gnerphk View Post
there seems to be a complex-wide ordinance restricting...
It makes one wonder, rather, why it is that in this age of ocean-dumping and nominal recycling (especially as compared to the famed London 'rag-and-bone man' of an earlier age) nobody in this country has yet taken up the role of mass-composting for profit. I've seen information on methane pile plants, but they tend to contain factory-agriculture waste instead of post-consumer scrap food etc. Perhaps petroleum-distilled fertilizers are cheaper in bulk, but they're mostly useful for maize production -- and I think we've got enough of that.
the answer to both of those questions is the smell. if consumers complain about having to wash out their garbage before recycling it, what will they say when you ask them to collect their compostable organic matter? if there is already confusion about weather or not you can recycle plastics that dont have a number on the bottom to tell you which recycle category thay fall into, wont there be multiple questions about what is and isnt compostable materiel?


@Bole, i think his non-answer was your answer. you see it all the time where people dont want to face down a hard issue they pretend it isnt there. like the people who deny that global warming is an issue, they dont feel they can deal with it, they dont want to deal with it so they insist it isnt real. you see the same things in familys about to divorice, the children will fight tooth and nail to deny that any such thing is about to happen.