On 10/11/2014 1:18 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> On Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 10/11/2014 11:42 AM, Kalmia wrote:
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>>> It appears that the amount of FOOD garbage is related to the amount of scratch cooking one does. If someone is living on 'boughten' cookies, canned soups, frozen pizza etc, no there won't be much for the compost heap or garbage pickup.
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>> Uh, what? All that cardboard and plastic packaging from "boughten" food
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>> has to go somewhere. Into the trash can! (There's no composting where
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>> I live.)
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> I meant food waste. I used the term garbage to mean food waste only.
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> I am lucky to have curbside recycling, so I don't feel too guilty about cans and cardboard which I term as trash.
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> Wouldn't they let you compost if you wanted to?
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>
Ha! You know enough about where I live; the rules, the regulations, the
covenants. No, they don't allow composting.

There's only one trash/garbage pickup service available here, too. For
some reason a couple of years ago a majority of owners voted against
recycling. I have no idea why. I called to ask about how to know what
types of things to recycle? I was immediatedly asked, "Do you live on
Dataw?" Yes. She said "Never mind." Apparently the idiots who live
here couldn't be bothered to separate paper from plastic from cans and
somehow they protested enough to get the garbage company to pull the
plug on recycling. I don't understand it.

Jill