Rotting respect: Vermont preps for mandatory composting
Beginning this summer, producers of large amounts of food scraps in Vermont must divert those cast-offs from landfills. By 2020, every kitchen in the Green Mountain State must follow suit.
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Polite society tends to pitch its surplus food and kitchen scraps directly into the trash.
Advocates for composting cry foul.
They protest the prevailing bias for spotless, scentless kitchens — and proclaim that we are tragically removed from the afterlives of fruit, vegetables, grain, meat, bones and cheese.
Persistent compost-boosters approach non-believers and ask: Why not harness (or embrace) the metamorphosis of food scraps into ever-smaller bite-sizes for ever-smaller organisms?
This centuries-old chorus was recorded into Vermont law two years ago.
Act 148, also known as the Universal Recycling Law, gives us until July 1, 2020 to divert all of Vermont's food scraps from landfills.
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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/green-mountain/2014/05/04/vermont-gears-mandatory-composting/8626199/
