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Originally Posted by JManc
What do you guys do with the compost if you live in condos? I live in a house and would use it on the lawn. Does the city (Seattle/ San Francisco) take it?
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I would assume so. Here, for at least a decade I'd say, there's been three municipal bins: recycling, trash-garbage, compost. I'd be surprised if West Coast cities weren't at least as advanced.
The city doesn't force anyone to recycle or compost, but after implementing the compost bins they diminished the collection frequency for the trash bin, so that people would be somewhat forced to sort their waste better. If you're old and stubborn and still want to put everything in the trash bin, which you legally can, it will probably be overflowing way before collection week.
The next step is probably going to be replacing the trash bins with smaller bins...
The downside of that approach is that I have witnessed people shamelessly putting their trash into the recycling bins when the trash bins are full, and that obviously puts more strain on the sorting centers. You'll get fined if you're caught doing that but the likelihood of it happening is pretty low.