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I lived in the same 3 unit building for 7 years in SF. Not once did I ever see the other tenants use the green compost bin except for once or twice a year when
by greggman 12y ago
I lived in the same 3 unit building for 7 years in SF. Not once did I ever see the other tenants use the green compost bin except for once or twice a year when trimming the yard.
That to me suggests that getting the compost and recyclables out of landfill means removing people from having to do it.
I know apparently some cities do the separation at the garbage collection site. That seems like a much better idea. Rather than trying to get 800,000 people to behave correctly just try to get a few companies to do it correctly. Problem solved 100%
I saw this also as someone that worked at a big tech company that prides themselves on hiring only the smartest and then watching how those supposedly smartest could not correctly place things in the right bins. If even supposedly smart people can't do it why would we think anyone else can?
Just move the separation to one or two locations and the problem only has a few people (or robots) that need to be trained and only those same locations need to be checked that their doing it right.