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[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by you&me

The secret is to use your blue bin as a black bin, once the black bin fills up.

(kinda, sorta, half-joking - truth is 80% of the blue bin contents end up in the landfill anyways)

The real secret is to use your neighbours bin first and once that is full you start filling up your own bin.

[btimbit]

Ah just throw it over the fence, let Arby's worry about it

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by btimbit

I made chili at home the other day and yeah, for food waste, a few onion peels and a zucchini end, not even a fist size of stuff in total. Would take months to fill a bin at that rate

It's just two of us and the dogs, and the wife and I mostly eat at work now that I think about it. She came home this morning and had a granola bar. If I had a secret it's that we don't really have time to cook I guess, which is a shame because I love it

Ah ok, that makes sense.

I have 4 adults one of which eats two suppers a night.

[SportsJunky]

Get a good garbage disposal installed. It's like air conditioning in that you'll wonder how you ever lived without one.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Ah ok, that makes sense.

I have 4 adults one of which eats two suppers a night.

The joy of teenaged boys?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

Get a good garbage disposal installed. It's like air conditioning in that you'll wonder how you ever lived without one.

Those in-sink units that can bust up solid food waste, often called garburators, create two types of waste, a Calgary official tells CBC News.

"The majority of that material is captured by our screens," said Sarah Huber.

"If the material cannot penetrate the screens, it's scrapped and taken to the landfill. The material that does pass through the screen is treated as part of our wastewater."

"It does reduce the capacity of our wastewater system both in collection as well as treatment," Huber said.

"Source-separated organics is the preferred method for us, our system is designed that way."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...gary-1.4611658

Not really an ideal way to deal with waste, you end up straining the system and costing us money. I have one, and I think it's fine for small amounts of scraps, but I never purposefully drop food down there. Are you just putting all your compostables down your sink?

[White Out 403]

So a couple weeks or a few days ago there was a new story about BU creating a new deadlier strain of Omicron. They basically made a new strain that was 80% of the lethality of the original strain, with Omicrons transmissibility. it killed 80% of mice and people then reported it as being a super strain. So that was probably a little irresponsible because mice aren't humans, but now vice and other main stream outlets are running interference for the lab saying that it isnt gain of function and stop lying about the lethality! So instead of having the discussion, as we should, about gain of function research and it's inherent dangers, we can argue about fake news.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Slava

The joy of teenaged boys?

It's crazy

He is working out like a machine and eating a tonne, has a goal of 15lbs before rugby season.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

Get a good garbage disposal installed. It's like air conditioning in that you'll wonder how you ever lived without one.

We have one.


Part of me has a distant memory of reading somewhere that garbage disposals around the greatest for the environment or waste water system, can't recall which.

[SportsJunky]

It's probably not good for either. Doesn't sway me though. It's a glorious machine. I'll give it up when Sliver gives up flushing wipes lol.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

It's probably not good for either. Doesn't sway me though. It's a glorious machine. I'll give it up when Sliver gives up flushing wipes lol.

You just played yourself. Gave those up for a bidet a few years back hah.

[SportsJunky]

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[BlackArcher101]

This is true, garbage disposals should be banned haha. Dumping organics (like some people think they are for) reeks havoc on the sewer and treatment system. Especially the fats associated with it.

[mikephoen]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

This is true, garbage disposals should be banned haha. Dumping organics (like some people think they are for) reeks havoc on the sewer and treatment system. Especially the fats associated with it.

It’s actually ‘wreak havoc’. ‘Reek havoc’ is the smell that comes from the under sink compost bin if you don’t empty it often enough.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

This is true, garbage disposals should be banned haha. Dumping organics (like some people think they are for) reeks havoc on the sewer and treatment system. Especially the fats associated with it.

Are you saying people put animal waste down their disposals?


We only use our for plant waste.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

It’s actually ‘wreak havoc’. ‘Reek havoc’ is the smell that comes from the under sink compost bin if you don’t empty it often enough.

Frick sakes, thanks. But that works too.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Are you saying people put animal waste down their disposals?

We only use our for plant waste.

Plants are organics that don't breakdown easily, that stuff should be composted not put into the sewer systems.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

Plants are organics that don't breakdown easily, that stuff should be composted not put into the sewer systems.

Ok, I do compost most things, but use disposal for peeling.

That's gonna stop now.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Ok, I do compost most things, but use disposal for peeling.

That's gonna stop now.

The plant operator (see what I did there?) appreciates it. The less stuff they have to remove prior to treating the better for them.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

The plant operator (see what I did there?) appreciates it. The less stuff they have to remove prior to treating the better for them.

I'm happy to help, it's not skin of my back