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After 3 years of trying, I finally got my apartment building to install a compost bin
Last month I gathered 12 signatures from neighbors and brought them to the property manager, and they said yes - the new bin went in by the dumpsters this week. Has anyone else had luck getting their landlord or building management to make a green change like this?
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miles_sanchez1mo ago
Wait till the first person puts a dead raccoon in there and see how long that lasts.
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west.henry1mo ago
My neighbor Tom actually tried this after his dog killed a possum in his yard last spring. The city compost program takes all kinds of organic waste, including roadkill and dead animals, and they run it hot enough to break everything down safely. There's a whole section of their guidelines that covers animal carcasses and how to wrap them properly before dropping them off. I think people overestimate how picky these programs are because they see the "food scraps only" signs at the basic drop-off sites. The industrial composting facilities handle way more than just lettuce scraps and coffee grounds. If someone tried the raccoon thing, the worst that would happen is a worker would call them out or the bin would get rejected, not some catastrophic failure.
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