1/30/21 We Be Composting?

     Wife started talking about how we were going to get a composting bin a couple weeks ago.  I tend to ignore stuff like this because it ends up being work for me.  Well, it arrived last night and as I see it, now we have three trash cans to worry about.  I thought it was bad enough to separate the paper/cardboard boxes and gradual things that have been added to the list over the years.  But, we all love Earth, so we do as we're told.  Now, they have instituted a composting component to our trash, I had heard that the goal is by 2030 or something like that, we will be sending 0% of our trash to the dump.

    Along with the composting bin, really a small green trash can, looks like the brown and blue ones, we got a booklet which explains what goes in this can.  Mostly, we are to put anything that was at one point alive in it, whether it is leftover food, grass clippings, small brush, spoiled foods, and the like, even say pizza boxes will be able to be mixed with the compost, oh yeah, and for the 2-3 people that still get a newspaper, that can go in there as well.  I thought it odd that the notes said that an animal carcass did not belong in this compost bins, I guess if somebody kills a dog accidentally, it is not to be placed in these bins.  I guess that makes sense, but what if we cook a pig and we have a lot of leftovers, this should be ok, right?

    So what does this extra work going to save us?  Nothing really, we will already be charged $2.50 more, but all they have to do is say it's for the children... and Earth.  Supposedly, if we transfer over enough of the trash from our regular bins, we can reduce from the bigger brown trash cans to the medium or small ones and save an impressive $300, yearly.  I'll believe this when I see it.  Same with the recycling efforts, we get charged a little bit, someone is making money off that trash, does the city benefit somehow?  According to the pamphlet, the compost will be then sold back to us, double dipping in our pockets, the American way.

    I guess it is a good idea to reduce the trash we produce, but they can also get the food manufacturers involved.  Stop using stupid containers, like styrofoam which does not decompose, or multi material containers, like when we would buy toys in a cardboard box, with a big plastic see thru panel.  The plastic wasn't supposed to go in the recycle bin, so we either had to go through the trouble of tearing the two apart or just saying F it and throw it all in the regular trash.  I guess progress comes slowly.