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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…

Vancouver compost toter- clear as mud or info overload?

I was in Vancouver recently and I had a blast... what an awesome place. So far it's a tie between them and Cape Town for the best designs and convenience for the disposer. Therefore, I'm going to start with the "ugliest" toter I found, which happens to be info overload. However- info is good... or is it? For some this is a huge deterrent and results in "oh screw it, just throw it all in", while for others it will result in laser-focused compliant disposal. I'm definitely in the latter group, and this lid label really lays it out for me. The usual questions come to mind- how old is this label? Is this the current message from the company? Plenty of paper products have plastic liners in them, and…

Funky Compost Toters in Portland

Ah Portland... why can't more cities adopt your composting program? Here's two good example compost toters I saw all over the place. What's interesting about the lid is that I immediately skim over the graphics and whatever the text says (still haven't read it), but the "No Garbage Please" makes it so easy.