New baby!

FOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT USE AN INSINKERATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the yelling.
But if you put your food scraps down the sink, it just leads to greater waste solids at the wastewater treatment plant. Some of it is converted to methane in the treatment process, but most of it just becomes waste solids. There is absolutely nothing we can do with waste solids. In Auckland it is trucked to an old volcano and just thrown in (Puke-something by the airport). Basically it all goes to landfill. It is a major issue for wastewater treatment plants and engineers trying to design them, or operators trying to operate them. That and the food waste via insinkerators just increases the biological loading at the WWTP, which in short means more nutrients into the harbour.

But yeah, on the little green bins, what a disaster. My missus is into composting biggly, even teaches it at schools. She is going nuts about this. A private company is going to collect your food waste and truck it to HAMILTON to digest it down to methane. Can't imagine the carbon miles on that process...
Anyway, one school she is at started initiating this food waste programme, which would divert supplies for the worm farms and compost. Exactly why the council thinks it's a good idea to truck food waste to Hamilton while diverting it from community and school compost initiatives is beyound me. Said school is now back-tracking on sending it all to Hamilton. They have a garden and orchard, of which the compost and worm wee is incredibly important.

PS, we even have a lady who works in a commercial kitchen / rest home that drops off all their food scraps to our place so the missus can compost them.
PPS, if you are anti UPF, you should see what was out back lawn, highly organic vege garden feed on the best compost and worm wee you can get...

Plus is that bin plastic……

Also said to my son let’s recycle it 😂