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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Zeke, most of the "stuff" in our trash bins is yard debris from my wife's many flower gardens. We average one kitchen trash bag of household trash and food scraps.
We have a compost barrel that I put my grass clippings in, and we have a second compost pile with leaves and some grass clipping on the ground.
We never have stinky trash or flies buzzing around the bins. Our trash pickup is part of my city water-trash-sewage & storm water drainage fee. Any hazardous materials like motor oil, antifreeze, old batteries, paint, household chemicals, florescent light bulbs or mercury vapor lights I take to the hazardous waste disposal site for "free" or just part of the water bill.
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I guess you didn't read any of my post. The neighbor next door has no lawn but gardeners show up every Monday and blow dirt around. They get a few leaves from the evergreen trees unless they trim. It all goes in her compost pile.
They were issued a green bin at $50/mo which might as well be used for dog food. What the city is telling us is to not use the sink disposer for things like watermelon or other melon rinds that you would have to cut up first. Things like celery trimmings or potato peelings that have been a PITA, but make good compost. More: along with the fat you trimmed off your roast or the oil you fried your shrimp in, we are supposed to put animal bones in there as well. With or w/o meat attached. These items were problematic in the sewer pipes.
No more, put all your garbage in the bin. They even tell you to line the bottom and cover your food with grass. But there are limits as to what you can line it with. Only paper. That sounds like the old garbage truck of the '50's before disposers.
But that's not the main point. There are tons of grass clippings and other yard waste and it no longer goes to the landfill, it goes to some field along with FOOD. All FOOD. The only thing you can't put in there is cactus. Dirty paper napkins and paper towels, soiled food containers as long as they are strictly paper or reconstituted cardboard like an egg carton that isn't foam. No foam in the green bin. We don't allow foam food containers in CA.
Sooooooo;
THEY ARE TELLING US TO PUT ALL MEAT, FISH, POULTRY AND VEGETABLES IN WITH THE LEAVES AND GRASS.
That will stink I don't care what you say or how you handle your waste. Oh, they say to freeze your waste food until trash day (which officially starts the night before). Yeah, right. I live in a city where any Monday morning a drive by any park will find overstuffed trash cans with trash stacked up against it if the people didn't just leave it right there were they set up the grill. The seagulls love the parks Monday morning. The parks look like the stadium seating sections after a ball game.
It's already a problem in the alleys with flies and it's only going to get worse now that the city is telling us to put our food waste in a bin in the alley. Forget anyone taking to effort to freeze their food waste all week. You have to be a moron to think everyone is going to do that.
There's not a whole lot left for the actual trash bin. Diapers, dog crap, milk cartons because they are a hybrid of carboard with a waxy lining and exterior, and the stuff of household waste like anything that is dirty from a tube of lipstick to the old throw rug with the rubberized bottom. If it's not too big or heavy, stumps and wood go in the trash. When it comes to sawdust, that's hazardous waste because of plywood glue and the like. There in no place for sawdust strictly legally but it goes in the regular trash if it's bagged. Out of sight, out of scrutiny.
How about the house vacuum cleaner dust? Huh, where do you put that? It's dirt and dust so I guess that is trash too. Let's talk paper towels again. If they are from the kitchen, they go in the green bin. If they are from the garage, the go in the trash, but in reality the oily ones are hazardous waste. Don't put too many in the trash.
Oh, dried paint is OK for the trash including paint scrapings that have
lead in them. Just bag them; actually double bag them. But if you have any asbestos, you better run and hide. Orange only double bagged and labeled handled only by hazmat.
Mark the date and my words: within a year or so the health dept is going to be having sihtfits. There will be so many rats and scavengers like racoons that disease is going on the rise. The coyotes will respond in kind. As Jeff said, we are going backwards.
One final statement: how many posters here have sworn off being a landlord? Glen for one, Fred for another, and many more. I live on a street with single family houses with 3-4 duplexes in my block. Across my alley is rental after rental facing the next street over, a main thoroughfare. They do all the things renters do. They could give a rat's butt about anything. The rents are high, so other than a lack of responsibility, most are pulling in high 5 figures and drive nice enough cars. For the first time in a long time there are no non running parked cars in the block long alley.