On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:15:20 -0500, Clare Snyder
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:58:49 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:47:14 -0500, Clare Snyder
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:24:07 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:38:09 -0500, Clare Snyder
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:58:17 -0500, Nil
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On 07 Feb 2019, Clare Snyder wrote in
alt.home.repair:

Here in Waterloo recycling is weekly and garbage every 2 weeks

Huh! Seems backward. Here in my Boston suburb, garbage is weekly and
recycling is every 2 weeks. That works out about right because if I
ever come close to filling the recycle bin, it takes at least two
weeks. And I'd hate to keep stinky garbage around any longer than a
week, especially in the summer.
Here we have "blue box" and "green biox" recycling so there is no
"smelly garbage" all food waste is "green box" all paper, tin cans,
and plastic is "blue box"

Works out pretty good even in 90F humid summer - although 2x per week
for the green box wouldn't hurt. Some people keep a bag in the freezer
and toss the "cube" on pickup day.

The ironic thing is I bet most of the green box stuff ends up in the
same landfill as the blue box. Since China stopped taking our recycle
they don't have much else to do with most of it. Metal still has some
value but the typical unsorted paper and glass is useless and they
really only recycle #1 & #2 plastic. Where we are, the most useful
thing to do with it is burn it in a waste to energy plant.


No, all of our "green box" goes to a composting facility. Some also
goes to a biogas plant. The blue box stuff gets sorted and some DOES
end up in landfill, but very little. Metals are all recycled. Glass
and plastics are a bit more problematic. Waterloo Region was the
"home" of bluebox recycling.

OK I misunderstood. I thought green was recycle and blue was trash
(everything else). There is no compost here unless you are talking
about horticulture waste and they don't know what to do with all they
get now. They try to make mulch out of it but they can't even give it
away. There is about a half million cubic yards piled up since the
summer of 17 and air pollution rules won't even let them burn it.
Put "lawn and garden waste" is mulched - and used extensively in the
walking trail system as well as being made available free for
homeowners who want it. Mostly wood chips.

We already had this conversation but mulch is just not that popular
here. I never see it in the park system and most homeowners want
better mulch than you get from yard waste. Too many weeds and other
things that will create exactly what you are mulching to get rid of.
Palm tree mulch is pretty much useless for anything.
Mulch also seems to attract a lot of carpenter ants and the ones
people are scared of like scorpions or those cockroaches the size of
your thumb.