Composting.

[Aaarg]

I work in a produce section at a local grocery store and I'm a dirty liberal hippie and throwing out so much perfectly good organic matter gets tiring.

I think I want to talk to my boss about letting me maintain a compost heap behind the store, where I could throw all the bad fruit and veggies - instead of into the dumpster.

The problem would be getting other people on board. I'm sure I could easily find somebody willing to come by every so often and haul off the good stuff (contacting the community garden or people who work with the local farmer's market) because free compost is free compost, but co-workers... People who aren't willing to turn off a light when they leave a walk-in cooler will most likely not be willing to effectively separate what they throw into the garbage.

Really, I'd be perfectly content to be the only person doing this. I wouldn't really expect anybody else to put forth very little extra effort to benefit local farmers and the environment, but man... somebody will have to take over this project when I leave, assuming it's as mildly successful as I expect.


Any insight on composting or my plan?

[Tadao]

Dude, California. Fuck you.

[Aaarg]

Dude, I'm stuck in Carolina for the time being. Fuck me? Please.

[Tadao]

Well, either you can join the rest of us or sit in the backwoods complaining about how you are trying.

[Tadao]

It's not a very hard thing to do. Vegetation in one place, the rest goes into your blindspot.

[Aaarg]

wait wtf do you mean complaining about how i'm trying? if my boss gives me the go-ahead, i'm going to do this. all you said was "california. fuck you." how am i supposed to interpret that? they have supermarket compost programs in california - cool. but i'm here, where i'd like to do it myself.

apparently it hasn't been implemented so well up in the dc area, which is a shame.

[Tadao]

dude. the world is turning. turn with it.

[Aaarg]

i hate you tadao i hate you so much i'm going to cut you up and compost you

and your little bunnies too

(not really the bunnies tho)

[Tadao]

I'll see you on the board walk soon. wigger

[Tadao]

How can I tell you. I lived in Humboldt for 20 years, Santa Cruz for 2. Followed the Dead for 8. Road a motorcycle from Indiana ot California. I like my earth clean and pure. Asking these ******s is a cry for help. That help is west coast. Come join us.

[Aaarg]

I'll probably end up in northwestern Washington, honestly.

I hate where I am. I love the Smokies, but I hate where I am. I imagine the only place as consistently green and wet and mountainous as the Smokies is the Pacific northwest. Also Haida/Tlingit/etc. art.

I'm ready to move out that way, but there are things I'm not willing to give up, so I have to wait a bit.

[Tadao]

The choice is yours. Do i really need to dig up a dead song that relates to all this? Maybe St Stephen?

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Hating me is the right path, ignoring me is the wrong.

[Tadao]

also, never ever put meat in your compost.

[Tadao]

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[Tadao]

I bet it's about a bitch. It usually is.

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[Tadao]

also I've made my own worm bin. I don't really understand what the thread is about. Is it about convincing people to do the natural thing? Good luck with that Tupoc.

[Tadao]

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[Tadao]

Imma gonna ride you hard

[Tadao]

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[Tadao]

PRO TIP, YOUR BELIEFS ARE WASTE.

[Dimnos]

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[Tadao]

So like duuuuude, I wanna make this thing happen where my fellow humans harness the light to power the radio we listen to at work.

[Esuohlim]

I'm going to take all of my 17,621 I-Mock posts out back and mulch it together so I can grow one beautiful flower to smell all day

[Dr. Boogie]

I guess put it all in a pile and let nature sort it out?

Why not just sell it as, "I'm going to convince some local hippies to haul away some of our trash for free?"

If it doesn't benefit someone other than you (in an abstract, karmic sort of way), don't expect the program to last very long once you're out.

[Tadao]

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[Aaarg]

yeah the idea is that it would benefit somebody instead of just going to a landfill

[Esuohlim]

Landfills are good though! They turn into parks and college campuses and those are always full of pretty smelling flowers to smell all day

[Kitsa]

I had a pretty nice compost heap going until the power company spray painted lines on it and then backhoed it out of existence :(

[Tadao]

Composting,

It's the shit!

[stevetothepast]

We have a really good recycling and compost system where I live, the city comes and picks up recyclables and compost so theres not really any work for me to do, except sort out my trash. I tend to just throw everything in waste.

[Tadao]

You must live anywhere besides the bible belt.

[Tadao]

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[Tadao]

Compost,

Just doo it!

[Zhukov]

It's not like rotten vegetables are going to pollute the world if they go to a landfill. They'll just provide food for the rats and seagulls until they decompose. Thus, the circle of life continues.

[Tacobot]

I thought i might learn something about composting in here. what an idiot.

Why would your boss pay you to do something that doesn't make them profit?

And yea you should come to California and work at the evil super market that i work
for, they wont pay you enough to make a living here and wont give you a raise with a
promotion but yea they separate there trash and compost and i sleep so much better knowing that.

[Big McLargehuge]

Son if your employer is evil i'd recommend a new employer.
or
Quit your job. Sell your organs.

[Aaarg]

i have a co-worker who has been with the company for a few months short of a decade and she makes 8.35 an hour for 28 hours a week.

go fuck yourself.


also if i'm working evenings i spend half my shift eating cookies from the deli and thumbing my ass in the produce prep room. i don't think throwing food waste into something other than a dumpster is really going to affect where my boss's money goes.

also my boss took a drug test for me. i don't think he's particularly uptight about stuff.

[Tadao]

She probably does a shitty job.

[Tadao]

http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Compost-Organic-T-Shirt-%288225%29.jpg

[Tacobot]

That sucks for your co-worker, but maybe if you and your boss stopped jerking off in the back room and got out on the floor did some work you could make some profit and get the poor thing a raise.

So stop worrying about how they're wasting food and start thinking about all the money they're wasting on you.

[Aaarg]

who are you, trash0jr?

[Tadao]

How about ordering less produce and give the left overs to the homeless before it rots.

[Kitsa]

When my grandparents had peacocks, the local grocery store used to give them the leftover produce because peacocks love that shit. Everyone should see a bunch of peacocks fighting over a head of cabbage at least once in their lives.

[Tadao]

I used to live next door to those fucking birds. Fuck I hate them.

[Kitsa]

HONK. WHOOOOOOOO! HOOOONK. WOOOOOO!

They're better than guard dogs, though. Once they spot an intruder there's no stopping them.