If you live in a city area I hope you have a good spot for your new compost pile. I think its gonna be a buck per violation and 50 bucks if you are a business. Any Seattlers not currently composting out there going to accept the fine or are you going to start composting? Im curious what people who don't have room for composting are going to do. http://www.king5.com/story/news/loc...le-compost-food-scraps-fine-recycle/15438259/
They can compost in their bathtub. What a great plan, it covers so much. 1) waste is reduced. 2) water is saved. How is water saved you ask(?). Well compost piles can get pretty foul smelling. With compost filling ones bathtub, it would eventually become difficult to bathe. But that's OK. With the stink of compost piles permeating the Seattle air, no one would know that you were also 'stinky'. Besides, who'd care. Everyone would soon be wallowing in their own B.O., With the need for daily showers and eventually even a Saturday night bath, gone, The saving of precious clean water would be huge. Even though Seattle probably has little need for more water, they could sell it to California (They definitely need water). Maybe California should require composting as well.
These rules about not throwing food away and now composting, our already obese nation will end up eating all they can just to prevent throwing any away. Soon maybe they'll fine for weight gain to prevent food "waste" by eating too much.
Seattle City Council members are expected to approve a new ordinance banning residents from putting compostable material in the trash. Violators could be fined. ... Croll estimates around 36% of the material that goes into the landfill is still compostable. So the goal is to fine people for putting waste food in a hole in the ground... instead of a hole in the ground?
Nothing like composting to bring a certain 'aura' to a neighborhood. Not to mention flies and contagion. It's the compost that brings those wonderful auras and flies to landfills. People used to 'compost' in London just before the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague.
Nah, the Seattle City Council. This is the same city council that voted for $15/hr min wage. This to go with the absolutely stupid voters that voted for a raging socialist to the city council. You know that old saying "You get the gov't you deserve" even if it's just a local one.
