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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>I had a lot the other day after processing a pineapple, peeling and coring 5 apples, and removing the tougher parts of a head of escarole.

All critter food.... nothing edible ever goes into my trash can...
things like coffee grounds and teabags go into the composter. Aside
from recycleables the only trash is used cat litter. Meat scraps and
fat trimmings feed the crows... meat bones get crunched up by skunks,
coyotes, etc.