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The garbage pickup wouldn’t take our compost because it froze. In the winter. Now, they won’t take our garbage because we put compost in it. What are we supposed to do? Are we just supposed to not produce any compost over the winter? —Wastoid
This article appears in Feb 3-9, 2011.
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you’re supposed to do a better job of..
A) lining your compost bin to prevent freezing.
OR
B) do a better job of hiding your compost in the garbage.
Shall we pay our bin collectors to go to your house with a pick axe to take away your frozen waste?
Its winter, get a grip.
Did anyone else read the title like it was Leonidas saying it?
No Brendon, but I do occasionally like saying Cardassians as if I were Sean Connery; and then I find myself thinking of a clan of fat-butted publicity whores, but that’s another story. >; )
Compost roasting on an open fire…shit, and I thought Xmas was over.
Thanks Brendon 🙂 Now I do.
Brendon…the chick named JurassicPark that pops up on the side in Match.com ….I think you should email her. 🙂 ….. I get board when there’s no bitches…so I’m playing match myself!
Leave it open. The fat people will eat the leftovers before it freezes.
There’s a chick named Jurassic Park? Now that’s truth in advertising.
I got a ticket on my compost too. But, it didn’t tell me what the problem was. I looked, didn’t see anything wrong with it and put it back out this week–they took it no problem. I actually wondered if they wanted to finish early last time, so they simply slapped a whole bunch of rejects on bins and kept going.
Time to shit in the compost.
To Compost Pickup Dudes: Hey, it’s organic brown corn cobs in its hibernative state, ya nimrods.
just drive your stuff in behind a building that has big bins, you know, like in bayers lake, and just toss. see how fucking easy that was now?
Cool suggestion, Lifey. Good way to get rid of my 20 year old collection of freeze-dried squirrels.
ttfn, fuck me, you got a bunch of freeze dried squirrels too? i thought i was the only one that collected them, i got about 50 so far. all posed and shit.i even got the boxing match one. them little fuckers are expensive to get.
http://www.freezedry.com/t_gallery04.htm
Well, Lifey, this is what I had been hoping to do during retirement – ya know – to earn some retirement cash:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/42753091/squir…
Orgasmatron- definitely the question of the day… and now I totally do. Although initially I was reading it as though it was the announcer of Jeopardy introducing the bitch.
“…I get board when there’s no bitches…”
partial marks at least four proper spelling…. your just selecting the wrong one too use.
Homonym’s… you hate them
Is that a Seb Slur, Zedman?
that’s why i DO NOT compost or recycle in hrm,i tried to be the best at recycling and composting,but week after week I received yellow rejection stickers on my bags..i printed off the HRM’s web site( what and what i couldn’t recycle or compost) and I WAS doing exactly what they wanted,but,i was again rejected,so,i got fed up and decided to fuck the garbage man and go back to my bad habits…no wonder people get frustrated,just boycott the program and throw everything in a green garbage bag until they get their collective asses in gear and come up with an industry standard,not at the whim of a garbage collector!!!!!!
I wonder how much the city pays for 3 different kinds of garbage truck to pick up 3 different kinds of garbage.
Maybe I missed when we ran out of fucking landfill space? Fucking environmentalists.
Hahaha it seems my (not so) evil plan is working. 😛 And RC, I can’t seem to find the girl you’re talking about.
Z…thank you. I love that I can always count on you to point out my mistakes and downfalls. 🙁
Brendon…she’s on the match site…she always pops up on the right of the bitch page…and her opening sentence is something about liking nerds.
Found her eventually. I dunno, she’s sort of meh in my opinion.
Yeah I don’t bother composting and only recycle cans and bottles because they’re so picky about what they’ll take! And it’s weird that they didn’t take your garbage because there was compost in it… do they open the bags and look through it or something?
I only seen the head shot…but I’m really hoping that’s not why you’re saying meh. Also she misspelled a word right at the start of the profile (Favourite)….but I can’t talk shit because I’ve had my fair share and then some of misspelled words. I just seen the nerds part and thought of you 🙂 in a good way.
Hahaha well thanks for thinking of me, I guess.
Sorry Orga-Brend – You say you like comic books and seem like a cool nerd-type and she looks cute in her head shot. Kinda reminded me of Julia Stiles in 10 things I hate about you.
No need to apologize, RC.
“…I WAS doing exactly what they wanted,but,i was again rejected,so,i got fed up and decided to fuck the garbage man and go back to my bad habits…”
That line is classic if it were like… just overheard on a bus or something…
Or the other time-honored tradition: Throw it out the window on the 118.
I don’t understand original bitch.
Are you saying the bin froze to the ground so that they couldn’t pick it up?
Or are you saying the compost in the bin was frozen in place and couldn’t be dislodged when it was picked up and turned upside down?
Or are you saying that they arrived on pickup day, looked inside your green bin, saw the compost was frozen and decided to leave it?
The recycling and municipal composting program works quite well here in the HRM.
For all you cheaters out there who couldn’t be bothered composting – get ready. The HRM will be moving to mandatory clear plastic garbage bags in the near future so that they can tell who’s being naughty and who’s being nice.
And for those who think we should just throw it all in a hole in the ground out in the country somewhere, next time you turn on your tap think about where that water comes from.
hint: it doesn’t come from a ‘water factory’
waiiiiit can you poo in your compost?
well, you physically could donkster…but i would advise against it
I agree commandate. when i moved here I tried really hard to follow the rules, I did, and I’ve NEVER had a problem with them returning my garbage. but then again, I’m not brain dead like halifaxmentor (the lover of exclamation points)!!!!!!!!!!
I must admit, I preferred the wet/dry program from home, but hey, I can deal. And how much stuff is OP putting in their bin that it would freeze solid? You can use the odd newspaper page, that helps keep things separated.
…because you never know who might be hiding in the bin.
teehee http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/15968698…
I was thinking one of these:
http://extremecatholic.blogspot.com/images…
A couple of summers ago the 5-0 paid a late friday night visit to the dacha to evict a bipedal squatter from the dumpster.
ralmn,
I also put boxboard (cereal boxes, etc) into the green bin which helps keep the compost from becoming a frozen 50 lb block of soylent green.
Ivan,
I have volunteered to serve on the neighbourhood sanitation committee. I will be checking refuse containers in the evenings when I walk my dog. Names will be taken. Reports will be filed.
Alles klar, Herr Commissar. >; )
lol Commandant!
I didn’t know you couldn’t put pizza boxes in them?? I put cereal and cracker boxes in them full of food leftovers…but I was always filling up pizza boxes with left over’s and putting them in too. I won’t anymore! I would hate to have to put my hand in that bin and remove anything if it was rejected.
i use cereal/ milk bone boxes and newspapers
No poo in the green bin, no medical/human waste either.
If your green bin is rancid, you’re doing it wrong.
Ivan, I was thinking of this guy. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0_ynVlwAg9U/SNjt…