Using our Insinkerator Food Waste Grinder as a “Compost Companion”, take 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-by4iKsUnIE Here's a mostly excellent video... the core idea is right on: Grind up your food waste to encourage rapid decomposition. I'm a little lost on the pro- garbage disposal talk, though. I've seen only a few write-ups on this, and they've all been from Insinkerator... conflict of interest, perhaps? Convert organic materials into compost in your own yard, or flush them down the drain to combine with nasty chemicals, heavy metals, motor oil, medication, and everything else that washes into the sewers. Even with an infrastructure set up to compost sewage sludge (which isn't always the case- it's often incinerated!), the end product contains a lot of crap. Keep your organic materials at home. Anyway, the dude explains how he puts all his organic materials in his compost bin,…

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Vancouver Organics Collection

I've never seen cans quite like these... pretty funny! Based on their disposal at the time, they seemed pretty effective. I love the food scraps can... it made me realize that labeling a compost receptacle in a public place as "food scraps" must be the best way. When you see the word "Organics" or "Compost", that means you have to know what that means in order to do as requested. Isn't compost poop?  Organic food?  I don't have time for this; I'm just throwing everything over here.  We all know someone like this. With "food scraps", you simply know what that means.  Further, with so many disposable plastic-lined paper products ruining compost everywhere, this might help keep them out of the stream. The trash can having a lid vs the…

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