Je�us wrote:
> 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.
>
>
This retard can read and understand words...

"Many people confuse "biodegradable" with "compostable". "Biodegradable"
broadly means that an object can be biologically broken down, while
"compostable <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compostable>" typically
specifies that such a process will result in compost, or humus
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus>.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic#cite_note-5>
Many plastic manufacturers throughout Canada and the US have released
products indicated as being compostable. However this claim is
debatable, if the manufacturer was minimally conforming to the
now-withdrawn American Society for Testing and Materials standard
definition of the word, as it applies to plastics:

"that which is capable of undergoing biological decomposition in a
compost site such that the material is not visually distinguishable
and breaks down into carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds and
biomass at a rate consistent with known compostable materials."
(ASTM D 6002)
^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic#cite_note-6>

There is a major discrepancy between this definition and what one would
expect from a backyard composting operation. With the inclusion of
"inorganic compounds", the above definition allows that the end product
might not be humus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus>, an organic
substance. The only criterion the ASTM standard definition /did/ outline
is that a compostable plastic has to become "not visually
distinguishable" at the same rate as something that has already been
established as being compostable under the traditional definition."