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Garden waste recycled as compost by local councils
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 |
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