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Ashartus · 03-10-2012, 02:27 PM

I'm not part of the pilot, but have been composting fruit/vegetable waste for years. I don't see having their pail as being any different than having a garbage can in the kitchen really - I suspect it would probably actually have less odour than a lot of typical under-sink garbage bags.

I think the City's mistake was making the black bins so large though - if they'd rolled the green bins and black bins out at the same time the black one could've been a lot smaller. Even now with a family of 4 our black bin is rarely more than half full, and that's mostly diapers plus about 1 bag of kitchen garbage per week. Once we get the green bin and the kids are out of diapers there'll hardly be anything going in the black bin.

03-10-2012, 02:27 PM	#3
Ashartus First Line Centre Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Calgary Exp:	I'm not part of the pilot, but have been composting fruit/vegetable waste for years. I don't see having their pail as being any different than having a garbage can in the kitchen really - I suspect it would probably actually have less odour than a lot of typical under-sink garbage bags. I think the City's mistake was making the black bins so large though - if they'd rolled the green bins and black bins out at the same time the black one could've been a lot smaller. Even now with a family of 4 our black bin is rarely more than half full, and that's mostly diapers plus about 1 bag of kitchen garbage per week. Once we get the green bin and the kids are out of diapers there'll hardly be anything going in the black bin.