We moved to Seattle last month only to discover that not only are there a plethora of local farmer's markets running year round, but the city also boasts one of the most interesting trash collection systems I've encountered.
In our little garage we have four trash containers:
- 30-gallon Yard Waste - where we put all leaves, grass clippings, food waste (!), etc.
- 20-gallon Recycling - all co-mingleables including paper board, cardboard, tin cans, plastic, plastic bags, white paper, newspaper, magazines. Basically everything recyclable but glass.
- Small Milk Crate - for glass
- 15-gallon Trash - for everything else
Isn't it so cool that you can recycle pretty much everything in a single repository, but also that they assume you will do so and only need a tiny trash bin? I'm especially impressed with the food waste option. Since it's too cold to be running the composter right now, I can still put all our veggie peels (plus bread and basically anything non-dairy or meat) in the Yard Waste bin. I wonder what they do with all that waste? Do you think they have a massive compost heap where people can buy back their garage? I will have to do more research on this come spring.
Yeah Seattle!
