Twice a week, every week, I have time to reflect on one thing:

[conuly]

The city should be picking up mandated compost twice a week and regular garbage once. Because now that you can't put any sort of food scraps in regular garbage, obviously it's the compost that needs more frequent pickups... especially if their ostensible goal is to reduce the rat population via starvation.

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Comments

[hudebnik]

Hear hear! After a couple of episodes of compostable bags disintegrating under the influence of biological decay (which is sorta their purpose), I started taking the compost from kitchen to backyard bin twice a week even though the bin is only emptied once a week. But in the warmer months that bin will still get pretty smelly.

[elayna]

I think I’m relieved we put our food waste now into the garden waste bin. It’s only picked up once a week but I get energetic on pulling weeds or whatever so it’s all mixed up together and that seems okay.

[movingfinger]

They pick up compost every other week here, and while there is not a rat problem (outside of the immediate downtown area, where I see them around dumpsters behind restaurants, though it's popular to blame "the docks"), there is a growing population of raccoons, and they are for sure smart enough to get into a green bin. And so are the occasional bears...

[lilysea]

In my suburb/local council area

the FOGO bin (Food Organics, Garden Organics) 240 litre [63.4 gallon] bin is collected every 7 days.

FOGO is for:
kitchen scraps and food leftovers including bones;
the tiny remains of cakes of soap;
weeds;
small branch prunings;
lawn clippings;
dog poo;
cat litter;
human hair;
brown paper food bags if dirty (and if not coated with any kind of plastic coating). So, the brown paper bag your croissant came in, as long as it gets soggy if you get it wet.

Basically anything that will compost when wet and high-pressure aerated with electrically powered air blowers.

Hasn't made much of a difference re:rats tho, rats here thrive on
a) getting into people's chicken coops and eating chicken feed
b) eating oranges and other fruit off people's backyard fruit trees
c) eating passionfruit off people's backyard passionfruit vines.

The other thing that contributes to rat problems is rat poison - if people use a rat poison that kills owls/other predatory birds through secondary poisoning, there are no predators left to eat the rats.

[armiphlage]

In my town, compost is picked up weekly, garbage every two weeks.