On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:56:33 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote:

The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

my council composts garden waste and makes it available for free
at the local dump.

Mine sells it for £5 a bag :0(

If that is less than 100 litres you ought to tell them they are
ripping you off.

Maybe they aren't ripping anyone off; just being realistic.

£5 might reflect the actual cost of council collection, storage,
processing, labour and packaging costs of turning household waste into
compost.

This overlooks one of the important reasons municipalities have
set up garden waste composting: to keep such waste out of
landfills (or wherever the garbage goes). So in calculating
"actual cost", a discount is required to reflect this benefit.


--
Rodger Whitlock, Victoria, BC, Canada

"Listening to the [Opus Clavicembalisticum] is much like
Mussolini is alleged to have reported about governing
the Italians: it's not impossible, just POINTLESS."

----Jeffrey Friedman, 2004/06/24