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[Baro]

So despite pouring over the CRD's website I can't actually find out HOW I'm supposed to use this massive kitchen scraps bin the city gave us. They say what I can and can't put in it, but do I just chuck chicken bones and banana peels in there? Do I bag it like garbage? Do I need special compostable bags?

And is anyone else actually using these? An informal survey of my neighbours reveals no one uses them and everyone is a bit unsure what they are supposed to do. Perhaps we are all stupid, or perhaps the city/crd should have perhaps printed some instructions on the things.

[Bob Fugger]

So despite pouring over the CRD's website I can't actually find out HOW I'm supposed to use this massive kitchen scraps bin the city gave us. They say what I can and can't put in it, but do I just chuck chicken bones and banana peels in there? Do I bag it like garbage? Do I need special compostable bags?

And is anyone else actually using these? An informal survey of my neighbours reveals no one uses them and everyone is a bit unsure what they are supposed to do. Perhaps we are all stupid, or perhaps the city/crd should have perhaps printed some instructions on the things.

We use the same facility to process the waste that the City of Victoria uses, so this ought to apply: http://www.organicov...Materials.aspx.

To make it easy, aside from yard & garden waste, if it used to be alive, you can compost it. So all cooked animal parts, baked goods, even waxed paper is A-OK. Also, you must use certified compostable bags - biodegradable is NOT enough. Other alternatives are paper shopping bags from Thrifty's or lining the kitchen bin with newsprint (paper used to be alive as a tree, so it is therefore compostable).

It sucks that they won't take yard and garden waste. They City pays to dispose of it anyways at Hartland landfill for not much less than they pay to tip garbage. It would save on staffing Saturdays at the City public works yard and the ridiculous lineups that they still make you queue into, even if all you have is a can of lawn clippings.

[Baro]

So I'd have to go buy a bunch of special bags to use the program? Nah I'll just keep chucking most things out the window into the garden or into our compost pile.

[phx]

Saanich will take yard and garden waste, once the program starts.

Dunno why Victoria doesn't do that.

[Bob Fugger]

So I'd have to go buy a bunch of special bags to use the program? Nah I'll just keep chucking most things out the window into the garden or into our compost pile.

Nope. You could put it straight into your kitchen container, you'd just need to throw it into the dishwasher every once in awhile. Also, I wouldn't suggest throw pastry/bread, meat and bones into your compost: you'd be popular with rats and unpopular with your neighbours.

[James Bay walker]

Nope. You could put it straight into your kitchen container, you'd just need to throw it into the dishwasher every once in awhile. Also, I wouldn't suggest throw pastry/bread, meat and bones into your compost: you'd be popular with rats and unpopular with your neighbours.

Rats can access the kitchen scraps' bins?

jbw

[Bob Fugger]

Rats can access the kitchen scraps' bins?

jbw

Rats can gnaw through concrete. They can also access the old style garbage bins and flimsy layers of film plastic used to bag kitchen scraps before. What is your point, exactly?

[James Bay walker]

Rats can gnaw through concrete. They can also access the old style garbage bins and flimsy layers of film plastic used to bag kitchen scraps before. What is your point, exactly?

The new containers appear robust and have lids that can be used to close the contents off from rats (& seagulls, raccoons, dogs, etc.).

If the rats were to damage the exterior to the extent that they can access the contents, the container's due for patching or replacement. To not do so would be lax and ought to be a ticketable offense (but really, is there even one example of a rat ever having done so?)

jbw

[patrick venton]

let the ocean take the content, the crabs and bottom feeders, (real food) will appreciate this good stuff... that would of been consumed by humans, or the dogs around the table in many countries. Keeping it for bacterial food is redicul..use. There wouldnt be any rats or smell.

[patrick venton]

all that stuff is popular with the bottom feeders of the ocean. So, do you think if all responsible people did this , the City of would licence coffee vendors to inhabit the water front that has a new happening. Would be a new cultrual event for the area. Kinda like parents who drop off their kids at school and go for a coffee....have you noticed how many coffee shops around schools are popping up and doing well.