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There is the part where they expect to earn back from reselling the compost. > Mill has partnered with two processing facilities that purchase and turn all th
by nstart 4y ago
There is the part where they expect to earn back from reselling the compost.
> Mill has partnered with two processing facilities that purchase and turn all this dried food into a chicken feed ingredient, filtering out any errant forks or inorganic materials that accidentally get tossed in the bin.
The bit about filtering out inorganic material seems a little too convenient to gloss over though.
- eitland 4y agoAs a kid who grew up on a small (by Norwegian standards) dairy farm I remember it confused me that food waste couldn't be sold to farms. As a grown up, seeing all the stuff people put into food waste I can understand it. What I still can't understand though is how many people mistake food wrapping for food..!
- yourapostasy 4y ago> ...how many people mistake food wrapping for food..! It isn't mistaking, it is not prioritizing the cognitive load for the separation effort. When I was in Japan, I was impressed with the level of fastidious compliance I witnessed in materials separation. That convinced me the talk in the US about how mainstream households could not possibly support a comprehensive cradle-to-cradle materials handling infrastructure are really talking about culture and/or necessity and not logistics.
- rsync 4y ago"... I was impressed with the level of fastidious compliance ..." Diversity is neither bad nor good - it just has benefits and costs. You witnessed one of the costs. On the other hand, we invented jazz and snowboarding. Those are examples of benefits. I prefer the diversity.
- SirSavary 4y agoJapan, a country famously known for lacking innovation?
- rsync 4y agoAgreed. I am a compost consumer and I have no desire to plasticize my pastures and fields the same way we’ve filled the oceans with plastic. You can see this for yourself: just go to Home Depot and buy a bag of dirt … it’s not even micro plastics … whole objects like ballpoint pens and so on.
- another2another 4y agoPeople used to throw their teabags in the compost, but now it seems that they've started adding a plastic mesh around some teabags (to increase the strength I guess?) so now it's basically a micro-plastics bomb.