Garbage Upgrade

Got home from work last night and found a packet of info in the mail from our garbage haulers. Boulder County is requiring all waste removal services to provide curbside recycling and composting and it increase their rates for the removal of all non-recycle and non-compost items over the base minimum.

We recycle a lot already. We never even 1/2 fill our "garbage" can (with the odd exception, like awesome Friday BBQs for visiting friends) while our recycling is overflowing. And we had to pay extra for our recycling services since we are in the county, not the city.

Top that off with 2-3 trips a year to the yard drop off center for stick and leaf waste from our trees and you can see that we are making a conscious effort to keep as much stuff out of the landfill as possible already.

But now the city is making it easier. And from what I can tell, cheaper (for us) by about $5 a month....yeah!

Now I just need to remember that greasy pizza boxes, used napkins and paper towels, and meat scraps can go into the "compostables." I think we'll still compost vegetable and carb food waste at home, for our own garden, but more of our waste can now avoid the landfill.

Gotta love Boulder!

-A

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