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As 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
by eitland 4y ago
As 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.