Adding Simple Composting to the Mix and Reducing Trash
It was almost amazing to travel from Portland down to Los Angeles earlier this month, after having only been gone for a year and a half, not a day more. Why? Simply put, the culture shock. And it’s the little things too, not just the awful behavior of most motorists, either.
The total immersion in a Portland culture that focuses very heavily on greener measures across the board was starkly contrasted with a Los Angeles that still doesn’t really have separate bins for recyclable plastics and other materials — just trash cans, regular old trash cans that used to seem so all-inclusive — in a lot of places.
In Portland, and maybe this has as much to do with the over-abundance of take out and street cart food, or just a general emphasis on restaurant culture, it seems that there’s almost a mini-unspoken-competition among food sellers, to see who can be the greenest. Recyclable and compostable packaging for take out, tons of bins for separate recycling and composting in restaurants, etc. And now, we’re being asked to compost food scraps in the home. And the transition, given the supportive culture up here, isn’t that bad at all. Continue reading
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