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New Seattle law: No food in trash
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6 Jan ’15 - 8:47 pm
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I think I would have an issue with this

Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle, when a new ban takes effect to increase recycling and composting in the city.

Currently, Seattle residents are allowed to throw food and food waste – pizza boxes, dirty napkins, soiled paper towels – in the garbage. Residents are required to have a food and yard waste collection service, but they don't have to use it for food. (Backyard composters are exempt from that requirement.)

Similarly, multi-family building owners are required to provide a compost collection service for residents, but residents don't have to use it.

But on Jan. 1, Seattle will ban food and food waste in trash. 

Enforcement won't start until July 1. At that time, any single-family trash container with more than 10 percent recyclables or food waste by volume will face a $1 fine on the next garbage bill.

Multi-family property owners with too much food waste in trash will get up to two warning notices, and then a $50 fine.

That system of warnings and $50 fines will also apply to businesses. Currently only businesses that serve food are required to sort food scraps and waste for composting. The new law will require all types of businesses to do that.

Public trash cans will be exempt from the new ordinance. Garbage containers in customer dining areas will also be exempt, if a business provides food-waste composting containers.

Why the new law?

Seattle is falling short of its goal to recycle and compost 60 percent of its waste by 2015. The years-long bump in recycling has dropped, and only 56 percent of waste was diverted in 2013. Seattle sends about 100,000 tons of food waste to a landfill per year.

Seattle Public Utilities projects that the new law will divert 38,000 tons of food scraps from landfills and into composting.

http://www.seattlepi.....983805.php

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we have three trash collection in my neighborhood.

Recycling

Trash

Compostable trash

 

We can put even bones and meat in the compostable bin. They collect it weekly. Since we have it we don't put much in the trash bin.

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where does the compostable stuff go?

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KVR said
where does the compostable stuff go?

to a big composting site operated by the city.

they started about 2 years ago and they are gradually adding more neighborhoods.

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they sell the compost or allow you guys to get it for free?

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KVR said
they sell the compost or allow you guys to get it for free?

they redistribute for free to residents in the spring.

Maybe they use it in parks and whatever also, i don't know.

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wasn't it war potato that lives out in seattle? He was asking about using soil that had been mixed with composted human feces and the safety of it that seattle was giving out, I need to look for that thread

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found em

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