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Re: [Phys-l] Efficiency problem

From: Michael Edmiston <edmiston@bluffton.edu>

For example we cannot recycle all the cardboard pizza
boxes delivered to dormitories because food/grease contaminated
cardboard is not recyclable (at least not anywhere in NW Ohio). The recycling we
are doing costs the university $25,000 more per year than just sending it
all to a landfill.

For what it is worth, they are compostable. My worms like to eat them after they have been torn up into smaller pieces.

San Francisco, where I live, has a big curbside composting program. I doubt that it works out financially, but compost from houses and restaurants is used in the wine and organic food industry in place of some chemical fertilizers. Our school composts pretty much everything it can since compost trash is free but other kinds of trash are pay by volume.

Marc "Zeke" Kossover