Seems like every city hereabouts is adopting its own, not-the-same-as-any-other, "zero waste" program.
Which is intended to prevent the wastage of anything except the peasants' time (which the cloud minders value at zero, except during those hours when they have to pay their peasants).
So now there's this yellow-topped counter-top bucket wherein I'm supposed to store all food waste (now banished from the traditional category of garbage, but not included in the category of compostable material) until the time comes to take it out to the yellow side of the new dual-compartment wheelie bin.
Hello? Another thing to put on my kitchen counter? This house was designed for a 1950s-era working-class family. Counter space is limited, and it's full already. And the house isn't big enough to allow for expansion of the kitchen, even if I could afford a kitchen makeover, which I can't (never mind the vast additional mandatory expenses that any remodel job would trigger).
And this ferschlugginer thing introduces extra complications in the food-preparation process, extra hand-washing steps, and so on.
Ever get the impression that these rules are made by people who have fancy, spacious modern kitchens that they never actually use?
Oh, and the accompanying brochure includes many photos of smiling people, and helpful suggestions which are bizarrely impractical for people who actually do their own cooking and use their refrigerators to store food.
Growf.
Additional: Long ago, on a blog far away (if memory serves), Kim du Toit wrote an epic rant on the subject of sorting one's garbage, the gist of which was: I pay the city to haul my garbage away. Why am I being press-ganged into doing minimum-wage labor without pay?
Which remains a good question. Shouldn't the sorting of garbage be paid labor for unskilled workers?
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