[Auntie Dem]

This stupid policy just proves how stupid the eco-fascist Luddites of the lying, lunatic, liberal left are. I work at a landfill, I know the truth about all this. We've had studies done by highly respected University professors that show composting organic waste puts out more carbon pollution than just burying the waste in the landfill! Yet our lefty political leaders insist on composting, because they know better than academia that composting is the “right” thing to do.

They disregard the impact of the pollution generated by the big machinery used to process the material, they ignore the pollution created by people driving out to the landfill to purchase the compost.

If the waste were buried in the landfill it would generate more methane which is recovered via an extensive piping system connected to electrical generators.

Additionally, adding food waste to the compost does not make for a superior compost. How would you like spreading compost in your garden only to find chicken or beef bones showing through the surface? Bones do not compost well. And even worse the food waste attracts “vectors” (rats, raccoons, skunks and other vermin, leading to potential public health problems (Bubonic Plague anyone?). Food waste buried in the landfill is covered every night, keeping the infectious pests out of the food source.

But what do we know about any of this? The Eco-Fascist religion knows better and forces their superior knowledge down our throats through stupid ordinances like this.

[Ken H]

Correct. Environmentalism is not about a clean environment.

[Axenolith]

I’m betting the waste collection contractors push for this because it boosts the bottom line to have you pre-sort what you’re already paying them to pick up.

[driftless2]

The leftist nitwits suppose everybody has a garden. How many apartment or condo dwellers in Seattle even have gardens? I had a house without a garden. I don’t garden. How about spoiled food and no garden? These people are lunatics.