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Old 04-26-2013, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Out in the Badlands
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Check out the latest from the Austin City Council. Another dumb decision. I do not plan to sort out my french fries and put them into a compost bin. Ugh, what's next?

Austin restaurants must compost food scraps starting in 2016 | www.statesman.com
Fear not...for the Austin City Council....WILL save da planet.
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Old 04-26-2013, 09:20 AM
 
Location: North Texas
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"Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad, or an economist.”
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I know, spending an extra 3 seconds to separate your plastic stuff from paper/food stuff is ridiculous. I mean, it's bad enough you have to walk over to the trash can to throw things away, why can't you just throw it on the floor?
LOL!

I think it's a great idea and I'm eager to see how it works in the real world once it's rolled out. I think DFW could learn something from this. We need to ban free plastic bags while we're at it. Those things are such a nuisance.
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Old 04-26-2013, 09:41 AM
 
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When I was at UT, I lived in a couple of co-op houses with about 60 residents. After every meal, we would each take our plates to the kitchen, put the food waste in one trash can and the paper/other in another. We had a pig farmer who would pick up the food waste. That was in 1971-3. This is not new, and some establishments are doing it now. I don't know how the restaurant rules would be handled, but in concept, I can't disagree. I do think, however, that incentives would be better than passing laws, at least for a few years.
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Old 04-26-2013, 10:04 AM
 
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I didn't think the bag ban was bad ...
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Old 04-26-2013, 10:07 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Check out the latest from the Austin City Council. Another dumb decision. I do not plan to sort out my french fries and put them into a compost bin. Ugh, what's next?

Austin restaurants must compost food scraps starting in 2016 | www.statesman.com
Well...now we know that they're just doing their part to "keep Austin weird."

My gawd.

Grease, meat and french fries are NOT compostable items--WTH are they thinking?!?

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Old 04-26-2013, 10:11 AM
 
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I didn't think the bag ban was bad ...
I agree.
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Old 04-26-2013, 10:40 AM
 
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I agree.
Agree here also, being concerned about and making an effort to take care of the environment are good things!
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Old 04-26-2013, 01:57 PM
 
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Agree here also, being concerned about and making an effort to take care of the environment are good things!
That's not the issue. The issue is the government FORCING people to comply with measures like this. The government has no business telling private business to do this. If a business wants to do it, fine they can. Provide tax incentives for businesses to do it, fine. But all Austin is doing is creating an anti business environment. See California for how that's working out. Businesses are going to start leaving Austin for more business friendly areas. Just watch...
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Old 04-26-2013, 02:02 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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That's not the issue. The issue is the government FORCING people to comply with measures like this. The government has no business telling private business to do this. If a business wants to do it, fine they can. Provide tax incentives for businesses to do it, fine. But all Austin is doing is creating an anti business environment. See California for how that's working out. Businesses are going to start leaving Austin for more business friendly areas. Just watch...
But I bet you have no problem whatsoever with health boards telling restaurants to obey the law with regards to cleanliness, food prep, food storage, etc...and if they don't comply, they're fined or shut down.
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Old 04-26-2013, 02:05 PM
 
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Anyone remember when Austin started mandatory recycling? They didn't have the resources to actually process the recycled goods, so they trucked them to Dallas. Not only did it cost a boatload of money, but driving all those trucks to Dallas sort of nullified any environmental benefit of the actual recycling. I have a feeling that this will end up being a similar mess. I'm not saying that recycling or composting is a bad thing, I'm just saying that the city has a tendency to do everything a** backwards.

If they are going to require restaurants do it, then they need to either provide the services to take the compost materials (like they do with recyclables) or lower the cost of their trash service. After all, they are taking away less trash, so why should their customers pay the same rates as they did when they had twice as much trash to remove? The cost savings could be used to pay a private company to do what the City had been doing before.

Of course that's never going to happen. The city would never actually lower the cost of anything, even if they were lowering the level of service.
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