2 birds with one stone

[Jim Bennett]

Originally Posted by Carol H

Yes most people here do as well but many of us who live in urban areas frequented by bears have found putting kitchen scraps into it can create problems so using the kitchen compost curbside pick up is a better option leaving the back yard composts mostly for garden waste. The garden waste that the District picks up at curb side is mostly (or at least at my home it is) tree & shrub limbs cut into short pieces for pick up as they need to be chipped before they can be composted. Which is what they they do with it at the Districts main recycling facility. They then sell back the garden soil they make through chipping & composting it all in the big bins at the recycling facility.

I have a bunch of friends living on the north shore of the Shuswap and have the same issues with bears getting at their compost too, and choose not to.

[Dave and Kathie]

Here in Portlandia we just changed all our recycling rules. We all had to study this video to learn 'what goes where'

Sanitation Twins - Portlandia on IFC - YouTube

[Donna D.]

It's almost that bad, but not quite and all for a very good reason... we're tree hugging environmentalists! Humm, I wonder what bin the banana slugs go in?

[Carol H]

LOL what ever they are asking you to do it must be classified as a US Top secret as they will not let those of us outside the US see it