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Can we compost our way out of landfills? Lots to read here (via Compost Nation | Ensia) Money quote: But the real challenge in making a compost economy is moving our compostable trash toward 100 percent. Let’s replace recyclable, petroleum-based plastics with nontoxic, cellulosic, compostable plastics. In addition to making compostable products,... - http://composthere.tumblr.com/post...
![Can we compost our way out of landfills?
Lots to read here
(via Compost Nation | Ensia)
Money quote:
But the real challenge in making a compost economy is moving our compostable trash toward 100 percent. Let’s replace recyclable, petroleum-based plastics with nontoxic, cellulosic, compostable plastics. In addition to making compostable products, let’s make the packaging compostable too. And I am talking truly compostable [pdf]—not just biodegradable and not compostable with caveats (e.g., compost that requires high temperatures to break down) and certainly not toxic.
All compostable products needn’t even be intended for the garbage can. For disposable items that are manufactured by the billions but whose useful “lifespans” are minutes—for instance the plasticware that dominates cafeterias, fast-food chains and take-out—how about making them edible? (See here and here.) It’s a “technology” I remember as a kid on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk in the ’50s. Other baby-boomer New Yorkersrecall Lee’s Tuckee Cup, too — a real happy meal, good to the last, er, cup.
The bottom line is recycling is good, but it’s not going to get us even close to the goal of zero landfill waste. A consumer economy centered around compostable products is a lot sounder and could even be tasty.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ef0901bac3ba1a2781dc8533e39bd64a/tumblr_mioxo1tSzi1rqq1b1o1_75sq.jpg "Can we compost our way out of landfills?
Lots to read here
(via Compost Nation | Ensia)
Money quote:
But the real challenge in making a compost economy is moving our compostable trash toward 100 percent. Let’s replace recyclable, petroleum-based plastics with nontoxic, cellulosic, compostable plastics. In addition to making compostable products, let’s make the packaging compostable too. And I am talking truly compostable [pdf]—not just biodegradable and not compostable with caveats (e.g., compost that requires high temperatures to break down) and certainly not toxic.
All compostable products needn’t even be intended for the garbage can. For disposable items that are manufactured by the billions but whose useful “lifespans” are minutes—for instance the plasticware that dominates cafeterias, fast-food chains and take-out—how about making them edible? (See here and here.) It’s a “technology” I remember as a kid on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk in the ’50s. Other baby-boomer New Yorkersrecall Lee’s Tuckee Cup, too — a real happy meal, good to the last, er, cup.
The bottom line is recycling is good, but it’s not going to get us even close to the goal of zero landfill waste. A consumer economy centered around compostable products is a lot sounder and could even be tasty.") |
livingwind:
Trench composting simplicity. - http://composthere.tumblr.com/post...
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wearecivilized:
884 Million people lack access to clean drinking water. - http://composthere.tumblr.com/post...
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Vegetable mandala. How many vegetables can you identify?
More pics here:
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If it doesn’t get eaten, it goes to compost! - http://composthere.tumblr.com/post...
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When municipalities compost, costs/taxes go up. - http://greatday18.ca/when-mu...
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Great Day Bokashi available at Homesteader’s Emporium - http://greatday18.ca/great-d...
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Kat uses my bokashi in her own bokashi bucket. - http://greatday18.ca/kat-use...
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