Don’t think I don’t know who you are, what with the claw prints that emerge hours later scattered in light brown streaks of glee across the lid
27th March 2007
To the raccoons who, for the second week in a row, have busted into our tall green compost bin at the end of the driveway, leaving a putrid, rotting, gag-inducing pile of decomposing fruit, veggies and meat for me to clean up at 7:50 a.m. in my bathrobe while neighbours drive by staring, wondering what the hell the crazy woman is doing digging in the garbage:
F-you.
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Can I share a deep dark secret with you? I don’t participate in the green bin program, not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but because I think it’s gross and I hate the fruit flies!
I am not looking forward to moving to The’Shwa where this sort of thing goes on. Some weird every other week garbage pick up ?! These tall green things that collect rotting food ? YIKES !
I wish I had a green bin program available to me! I collect what I can at home and bring it into work for pick up. Not to sound all judgy (ok I sound totally judgy), but it’s my waste, your waste – our waste and we need to be responsible for it. And continuing to ship it to Michigan to end up in a landfill is not responsible or sustainable.
Rant over.
I agree with Danielle. I live in a Condo in Toronto and only wish I could be so lucky that I could participate in the green bin program. I would have worm composting if I could talk my husband in to it and if I did not live in such a small space.
Just my two cents.
Personally, in my humble opinion, we do enough recycling of papers, bottles, cans, etc. without worrying about recycling rotting foods that are biodegradable anyway…..Im with you Carly…….
I think I am going to get a backyard composter…for me putting rotting food in a closed container and then leaving it for the garbage peeps to throw back whatever is stuck in it back on my lawn grosses me out…
For the record, I actually love our curbside green bin program. We have photos of our first spring here of Eric putting together our backyard compost bin, and used it faithfully until June 06 when curbside pick up started. Our garbage minus food is so much cleaner, less stinky, and not as heavy. And until these past two weeks, we’ve never ever had a problem. The first time it happened we think Eric didn’t shut the lid properly, and this week I think the lid isn’t closing properly due to the havoc it went through the week before. But even after having to clean up the mess (twice, you bastard raccoons!) I’ll never give it up.
Jenni and Danielle are right — we have a responsibility to our planet to take care of it, for us and our future generations. Composting is the least we can do.
Preaching over and out.
We can never do enough to reduce waste. The production of ANY waste is more than what I personally believe mother nature is meant to handle, so the collecting of our biodegradables is the least we can do. If it stinks, keep the bin in your garage, or sealed in a larger garbage container outside. We’re reading a site devoted to our children, so not making every attempt to make the world as liveable for our children in the near future would kind of be hypocritical.
That being said – Damn you raccoons and your wicked ways. Damn you.
Now that is Touchee Jen O. I don’t think you can compare composting (or lack there of) to one’s devotion to their children. The world is a wretched place to live, believe me, I know. I watched my daughter die in my arms. The world is full of imperfections that need solutions, and sometimes I some of us need to focus on other problems that are closer our heart, so please don’t assume that because I don’t compost that means I am not devoted to my son.
I don’t understand why “Karla” believes a “touchee” was required. After all, did she not admit in her first post that her whole reason for not participating in the green bin was because it was “gross”? It’s your waste…deal with it. I think it’s disgusting too — but I believe that my responsibility to my planet means that I have to suck it up and do what’s best for the environment. In the grand scheme of things, dealing with a little smelly food waste is not a big deal.
I’ve read my comment a hundred times and can not for the life of me find where I specifically said that because a person does not compost they are not devoted to their children. I wasn’t being touchy and am not being touchy now, I just want to explain myself. My point was simply that composting is an easy way to help preserve our world for our children’s future, which I believe is extremely important. I would never make a personal attack on someone, or judge them simply on a small comment.