Should towns and cities have common composting

Question

should towns and cities have common composting?

the average citizen would never compost.

There could be a special color plastic bag. Citizens put food items in.

the recycling people could pick them up.

and bring them to the compost area.

they could remove the plastic bag, dump the food items into the compost. then recycle the plastic bags.

Answer 1

right, and we will call it a landfill

Answer 2

Of course!!! We have that where I live, it's called the Organics program. The city gives us a "kitchen catcher" a small pail to put in the kitchen, we use biodegradable bags or newspaper and they also give us a big green bin to put it in curbside. Even restaurants do this. We have over half a million people living in this region and it's accessible to all. I am a huge fan!!!

Answer 3

Depending on the size of the town/city, it might be practical for some things. Our county composts leaves and gets relatively little junk in the compost, mostly rocks and a few sharps. Collecting kitchen waste is dangerous for municipal composting. People are likely to include animal matter and large chunks of material that a rat would consider edible. That is not what you want windrowed.

It's a nice idea but impractical on a municipal basis. People who want to compost can still do so in their own compost piles or worm bins.

Answer 4

that is a great idea... the average american wouldn't have thought to recycle back in the day but now it is common place... people im sure would be resistant at first to the idea of composting but think of how much less would be put into landfills if composting became 'popular'...

there is this really cool land fill in Southern cali that actually composts, and grows vegetables from the composted fertilizer for all its employees and they also somehow traps all the methane gas released from the decomposing stuff in land fill and uses it to power the whole entire school bus fleet for either the town or county ( i cant remember which)... if only every land fill was as eco friendly as this particular one