Wallowing in your wrong, even.

Delighting in it.

::knocks on all available wood::

Main problem is occasional fruit fly issues, but those are pretty easily preventable/resolvable.

Yeah. Not so much in my experience. So my worms are now Outside.

The pessimist in me says that it won't last. Let's hope I'm wrong.

The cynic in me says that they are lying. Won't believe it until there's independent confirmation.

(I also hope I am wrong!)

I would totally change everything in my house before you came to visit. Hee.

Really not necessary, but I would be happy on request to do an informal waste audit. ;) I am so far from being perfect that I try really hard not to judge. (that dude on my fb page? I JUDGE. OH, I JUDGE.)

::I would call it adaptive reuse, just leave me a little to use!::

I am curious about this statemdent. I've heard milk cartons are actually plastic lined. Do you know how accurate that is? Or if it is only some? Just the ones with plastic pourtops perhaps?

This looks to be a well-researched post on the topic: [link]

Meat/dairy/oil is not recommended for backyard compost b/c it needs careful management (temperature) to break down and kill bacteria, it takes longer to break down, and it attracts vermin. So not recommended for body disposal.

Yeah. Not so much in my experience. So my worms are now Outside.

Hmm. I use a one-two punch of Dipel Dust [link] sprinkled in the bin on top (to kill the eggs) and a funnel trap with apple cider vinegar, which is like unto crack to the actual flies. Preventative measures are freezing the scraps and washing citrus fruits which tend to be the worst offenders in terms of having larvae on the peels. All of which you may have tried to no avail, idk. YtoleranceforfruitfliesMV.

I have no problem with worms. Fruit flies bother me, though. I like the electric one, except for how it uses electricity. Not much, though, it looks like. I could save more than that by turning the AC up a degree.

Oh, BP, please don't be lying and/or fucking up, this time.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe that no oil is leaking. I just heard yesterday (I think) that they needed to do pressure tests which would take 48 hrs before they could tell. But I'm known for losing track of time.

Oh, and when I say I'm not perfect, here's an example: since moving into a house with a backyard compost bin, I have not fed my worms in probably a year, so they have likely all starved and/or eaten each other and/or are in a barely alive state by reprocessing their castings repeatedly. I should probably check. And yes, I feel horribly guilty about it.

Damn, talking waste here, porn in Bitches, and gay marriage on FB. I did no work this afternoon, alas.

I don't know much about the electric composters, but judging from a quick scan of the promo material it looks like a great option for those who can afford it. I saw an episode of "Get Wasted" where they gave one to a very wasteful family and they ended up pulling it out and sticking it in the garage - so you're still going to need to have some patience for working out the kinks in the system.

Post-consumer composting is really hard to do. One chicken bone in a recycling bin - not a big deal. One plastic bottle in a compost bin? Much bigger deal without a contamination sorting system, as that bottle could get ground up and fuck up a whole load of compost. I wonder how SF et al sort out the contamination in their compost bins? Hmm... We do composting only in our all-you-can-eat dining halls, since the staff can be trained a lot easier than the entire student body.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

I love it, smonster. I'd love to start composting with worms. I could do it in the garage, too. Or get one of those small composty things Jessica linked to.

My county picks up yard waste separately, and the only bags allowed are special compostable paper bags. The yard waste is composted and the compost is free to county residents.

I've always done some type of composting, so my yard waste is mostly sticks, and I've been known to steal other people's bags of leaves on the curb. I felt like a complete garden nerd when I was excited that my compost was steaming this winter.

Timelies all!

At home we have one recycling bin. At work there are a variety of bins.(Plastic, aluminum, paper, mixed...)