Ever worry about where your pizza box goes after the last piece is consumed cold for breakfast? Ever think about that half a hamburger after it leaves your hand? Never mind the egg shells, banana peels and coffee grounds. A lot of the grumpy guys and gals on the Shorewood City Council aren't losing sleep over it.
After discussing an application for a nearly $25,000 grant to subsidize the cost of offering an organic recycling program to their residents, the Shorewood City Council decided to trash the idea.
Council member, Laura Turgeon was concerned that someone might benefit from the plan other than the residents, and perhaps the earth, like the trash hauler who would help implement the plan. In addition she complained about having to lug yet another container of waste to the curb. "I don't need to be on the leading edge for everything", she stated.
Council Member Jeff Bailey wondered what the point was of the program, calling if a "silly little feel good thing".
So much for progressive thinking in Shorewood.
It wasn't a complete bust. Council Member Scott Zerby was hopeful about trying it out, saying, "I don't see the evil side to this".
But back to your grungy garbage. Different communities in Minnesota handle their trash in a variety of ways. General trash containing organic materials is sent either to a landfill or a burn center. Across the country some send their trash to somewhere else with an "out of sight, out of mind" mindset. Some states use an entombment method whereupon all the garbage is kind of hermetically sealed for posterity, a boon for ambitious future archaeologists.
Me, I've tried several methods. For years in my previous home I composted all my organic garden and kitchen waste, except meat, bones, food-soiled paper and greasy gunk. I put the compost back into my kitchen garden, improving the clay soil in the process. For that, I received the neighbor's thanks for supposedly attracting raccoons to our area. Could it have been the bowls of food in her dog kennel instead? But I digress.
