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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, my elderly parents in California have been doing this for years, it's not that hard. You can put newspaper or paper bags if there's leaking, but I use these bags and carry out every couple of days and don't have that issue.

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If you can't do it for yourself, t[b]hen do it for your kids.[/b][/quote]

I’m not anti-composting — I’ve had my own compost pile for most of my adult life. But this is a classic example of something that feels “green” but does t actually do anything for the environment. There’s no way that the energy and materials involved with manufacturing special little compostable bags, distributing them, manufacturing special containers, having trucks drive around and pick up waste & deliver it to a central facility, etc, is more environmentally friendly than simply putting that relatively small amount of waste in the garbage that will be picked up anyway and sending the landfill, and letting it decompose there. If you really care about this, make your own compost pile and use it in your garden. [/quote]

If you'd done any research about the Arlington program, you'd know that the compost facility is actually on the way that the trucks drive anyway. And if you actually even live in Arlington, I'm surprised that you don't know that we don't have landfills here--our trash is incinerated. [/quote]

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