http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/07/23/seattle-separation/ a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:11:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/07/23/seattle-separation/#comment-7045 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:42:21 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/07/23/seattle-separation/#comment-7045 While food waste composting does exist right now in Seattle (we're allowed to put compostables in our Yard Waste bins, which get collected every other week), we have to pay to participate in the Yard Waste program. So it's not that it's free now but we'll have to pay for it when this program becomes mandatory, it's just that more people will either be paying for yard/food waste collection when it goes live, composting their own to get around paying for it, or in violation of the new rules. While food waste composting does exist right now in Seattle (we’re allowed to put compostables in our Yard Waste bins, which get collected every other week), we have to pay to participate in the Yard Waste program. So it’s not that it’s free now but we’ll have to pay for it when this program becomes mandatory, it’s just that more people will either be paying for yard/food waste collection when it goes live, composting their own to get around paying for it, or in violation of the new rules.

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