On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:01:36 -0400, Roger > wrote:

>jmcquown wrote:
>> On 10/11/2014 11:42 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Uh, what? All that cardboard and plastic packaging from "boughten"
>> food has to go somewhere. Into the trash can! (There's no composting
>> where I live.)
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> I haven't peeled and cored apples in quite some time, although I have
>> in the past. The apple peels and cores went into the trash can.
>> Another example would be after coring cabbage. Snapping the ends off
>> stalks of celery. Onion peels. Things like that go into the trash, too.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>You can't compost plastic, genius.

You can if its biodegradable, retard.