Hacking Everyday Life. Exchanging Notes on Survival. Compost, Vermicompost, Biofuels, SVO, Green, Solar, Electric Vehicle, DIY, Gardening
We enjoyed our conversation and worm bin making adventure with Freshtopia’s Barb Finnin so much that we’ve decided to give you another little taste! Barb and Ryanne discuss the radical-ness that is composting and how to avoid bringing non-compostables (darn plastic bags!) into your home.
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We’re doing it! San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags at the grocery stores, and in June will ban styrofoam from restaurants.
I saw that story on SF & plastic bags. Would be really interested to see something from somebody who made that happen. Why only grocery stores, though - seems a politically unwise choice…?
More and more stores here are switching to biodegradable plastic bags. I went to a lecture last year given by a guy who makes these, and he said 4 billion plastic bags are used in the UK each year. We have a fifth of the population of the US. If that scales proportionally, that’d be 20 billion plastic bags per annum in the US. Imagine what that’d look like, all in one place. We don’t even get to choose between paper and plastic here, though - we just have plastic.
Anyway, composting : city councils here shy away from it… but some rural councils are making it compulsory. This has made us have another conversation about doing it here in our little garden, starting this summer.
hey rupert,
we’re going to get in contact with some of the city councilors who were/are involved in the legislation and hopefully get an interview!
-ryanne and jay
Interesting conversation. I am building a worm bin next week…inspired by your site!
It does feel good to walk out without using plastic bags! The places it gets me the most are when you’re in the drugstore and you buy like one little thing and they put it in a bag. i always tell them I dont need a bag, and half the time they look at me like I must be crazy. what - dont you think I can carry my one little prescription out in my hand, or in my backpack? I’d love to see this attitude make a large-scale change… its all about awareness, attention, and being awake to what’s really important. And plastic bags just arent that important in the grander scheme of things.