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How to prepare for Vermont's food scrap ban
WPTZ ^ | 06/18/2020 | Jackie Pascale

Posted on 07/01/2020 7:31:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Vermont’s food scraps ban that starts July 1 is the last step in a multi-year process of reducing waste in landfills.

The Universal Recycling Law was unanimously passed by the state legislature in 2012 in response to the state’s stagnant recycling rates. According to a 2013 study, an estimated 50% of Vermonters' trash included recyclable or compostable materials, like food scraps and leaf and yard debris.

First, you need to find something to store the food scraps in. Morris recommended a large container with a lid, which can be recycled from something already on hand or bought from a hardware store. She said to empty it at least once a week, getting into the habit of taking it out or driving it to a drop-off site just like you would with normal trash and recycled materials.

There are three basic options for what to do with food scraps, according to Morris: compost them for yourself, hire a company to come pick it up from your home or take them to a drop-off site, like CSWD or Green Mountain Compost.

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TOPICS: US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2manylaws; 2manytaxes; ban; compost; composting; foodscrap; vermont
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To: headstamp 2

I would. I’d dump all my weekly scraps at random polidiots properties that voted for this.


21 posted on 07/01/2020 7:43:34 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey,crows and seagulls gotta eat too!


22 posted on 07/01/2020 7:45:51 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Freedom.....where is she?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I see this as just more government control as they test to see how far they can push us.

I think you are giving them too much credit. Most of them are uninformed and make knee jerk, politically correct decisions without doing their homework.

23 posted on 07/01/2020 7:46:21 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane; ClearCase_guy
ClearCase_guy ~ I see this as just more government control as they test to see how far they can push us.

ladyjane ~ I think you are giving them too much credit. Most of them are uninformed and make knee jerk, politically correct decisions without doing their homework.

I have yet to discover a liberal, politician or otherwise, that can foresee even the most obvious of consequences for any of their actions.

24 posted on 07/01/2020 7:53:24 AM PDT by null and void (It never ends when you go down that slippery slope of digging for the truth.)
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To: BenLurkin

Send it to chop


25 posted on 07/01/2020 7:55:21 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: BenLurkin
“First, you need to find something to store the food scraps in. Morris recommended a large container with a lid, which can be recycled from something already on hand or bought from a hardware store. She said to empty it at least once a week, getting into the habit of...driving it to a drop-off site just like you would with normal trash and recycled materials.”

Uh, with the winters there, this doesn’t work in so many ways.

26 posted on 07/01/2020 7:55:32 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ignore it.

L


27 posted on 07/01/2020 8:00:09 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: BenLurkin

Vermont is dumb!!!!! In Florida, we have a separate day for yard debris pick up. Table scraps go into garbage not recycling. They are idiots up there. Of course, a garbage disposal can do the trick too. But to put it in recycling??? Dumb.


28 posted on 07/01/2020 8:08:18 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: BenLurkin
Hah. As luck would have it, my neighborhood is already dotted with numerous food scrap recycling dropoffs.


29 posted on 07/01/2020 8:08:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: ClearCase_guy

Most landfills are giant baggies. They were so concerned with groundwater contamination that the landfill today is just one contained bag of goo underground where things no longer rot away.


30 posted on 07/01/2020 8:20:10 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t people in Vermont have Insinkerators?


31 posted on 07/01/2020 8:23:37 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: BenLurkin

What happened to making compost to grow herbs and vegetables


32 posted on 07/01/2020 8:25:48 AM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: BenLurkin

Food scraps? What food scraps? We have a dog...


33 posted on 07/01/2020 8:33:24 AM PDT by Old Forester
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To: Red Badger

LOL. Brilliant.

Store foodscraps....bacon! Repeat as necessary.


34 posted on 07/01/2020 8:58:38 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

And it’s organic!....................


35 posted on 07/01/2020 9:03:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: BenLurkin

To make a non-stinky compost pile all you need to do is layer materials following this equation: 2/3rds brown vegetation to 1/3 green.

The green would be all your weekly table scraps, coffee grounds, and vegetable peelings (no meat or fat, please!). Just dump them into a gallon bucket. When full, start your layering. For the brown, natural hard wood mulch and shredded paper or torn cardboard boxes all work well. You should spread 2x as much of the brown as you add of the green. Eyeballing it is fine.

My husband drilled holes in the sides and bottom of an extra large plastic garbage pail to give greater air circulation and drainage for rain. I just keep layering week by week until it reaches the top. It takes about 10-12 months to compost down. Or you can just stack cement blocks in an open ended square or rectangle and layer and use center for the pile.

If you don’t have many food scraps, fresh green grass clippings also work for the green (not treated with herbicides!)

The trash can composts down in about 10-12 months. My garden loves the stuff!


36 posted on 07/01/2020 9:51:45 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, boy. If you thoughtthe backups and blowouts caused by people flusing disposable wipes, and the fatbergs caused by flushing grease were bad...

Anyone on a municiple sewer system better have ServiceMaster on speed dial...


37 posted on 07/01/2020 9:55:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think this may be the parent company...

https://compostingtechnology.com/

Wonder if any VT pols have a financial interest in it...?


38 posted on 07/01/2020 9:56:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Madam Theophilus

bttt


39 posted on 07/01/2020 10:05:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

So they are banning something that breaks down naturally?


40 posted on 07/01/2020 10:27:49 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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