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Wishing you folks all the best!

 

They're Finally Getting Around To It

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trashcans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in January.

The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays. When food scraps and other organic materials break down they emit methane, a greenhouse gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

To avoid those emissions, California plans to start converting residents’ food waste into compost or energy, becoming the second state in the U.S. to do so after Vermont launched a similar program last year.

Most people in California will be required to toss excess food into green waste bins rather than the trash. Municipalities will then turn the food waste into compost or use it to create biogas, an energy source that is similar to natural gas.

I've been doing it for over 30 years - composting, that is. When I subscribed to the newspaper, I threw those pages into the heap as well. Everything broke down, and I got good black soil as a result - though since I quit subscribing to the paper, all that goes out there now are kitchen scraps. It's still good, though. And unlike CA, it's not mandatory here; it's just the right thing to do. Why trash it when it can simply be returned to the soil?

I still use the yard debris bin, though; I get a fair number of tree branches here, and they're not really compostable.

 

Since Biden's Doing Nothing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott Is

They've built their own border wall.

Prepared For A Charlie Brown Christmas?

Those Christmas presents you ordered months in advance for your little niece and nephew? You know the ones? Yeah, they're now being used for an unintended purpose in a homeless camp. Probably sold for drug money.

Yep. If things couldn't get worse in the supply chain crisis, now it looks like trains that aren't moving are parked by homeless encampments, and the homeless are now breaking in and cleaning them out.

So, not only will you have to wait literal months for products you've ordered to finally make it to their destination, now it looks like you'll be lucky if any of these things make it to your house because homeless people are stealing from unprotected parked trains.

https://notthebee.com/article/you-know-those-cargo-ships-and-trains-waiting-to-be-unloaded-in-california-yeah-now-homeless-people-are-breaking-in-and-stealing-things-from-the-stopped-trains/

'Tis the season, I guess.

I reckon the stuff on the ships will be okay for now; bums aren't known for their swimming abilities.

 

 

Cold Ahead

The average heating cost for a U.S. household is forecast to see a double-digit increase this winter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its October winter fuels outlook (pdf).

Retail energy prices are expected to approach “multiyear highs” due to supply and demand changes following the pandemic, as well as a colder winter ahead.

Forecast cost hikes include propane by 54 percent, heating oil costs by 43 percent, natural gas costs by 30 percent, and electricity costs by 6 percent. Nearly half of all U.S. households use natural gas as the primary source of heating. 

Time to split a few more logs, just in case.

 

Good Dogs

Home Intruder Found Mauled To Death By Homeowner’s Dogs

Coweta County, GA – An alleged home intruder wanted on multiple warrants was found dead on the front porch of a residence after he broke into a house and was mauled to death by two dogs, according to police.

https://policetribune.com/home-intruder-found-mauled-to-death-by-homeowners-dogs/

 

Thankfully, Election Day's Only A Couple Of Weeks Away

It can't come soon enough. The constant flyers cramming the mailbox gets awfully old. And around here, they go straight into the recycling bin. They pay to produce and mail them; you pay to get rid of them.

 

Amusing Change

The billboard was an ad for an upcoming TV show. But The Faction, whose members are unknown, made a few alterations. Given Bidn's nearly half a century of accomplishing nothing productive while in D.C., they seem spot-on.

 

The Bloomberg Approach

Abortion, cradle to grave.

Then it will include diabetics, then smokers, then gingers, anybody in a wheelchair, then anyone that orders a 17 ounce + slurpy with a plastic straw, then christians & registered republicans.

Probably not in that order.

— JS Huddleston (@HuddlestonJs) February 17, 2020

Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg believes that the government should essentially just let elderly men and women who’ve been diagnosed with cancer die, because treating them would use up funds that could instead be spent on the youth.

“All of these costs just keep going up,” he says. “Nobody wants to pay anymore money. And at the rate we’re going, healthcare is going to bankrupt us. So not only do we have a problem … we’ve got to sit here and say which things we’re gonna do and which things we’re not."

“If you show up with prostate cancer, you’re 95 years old, [we] should say go and enjoy, you’ve lived a long life, there’s no cure,” Bloomberg continues. “We can’t do anything. If you’re a young person, we should do something about it. Society’s not willing to do that, yet.”

Yet. That's the overlooked key-word.

Soylent Green, anyone?

This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

The movie may have been made in 1973, but it's more relevant today than ever before. Especially with folks like Bloomberg on the loose.

 

What Do You Do With A Few Thousand Dead Wind-Turbine Blades?

Well, at present, you cut up these components of "green energy" production and truck them off to landfills.

The huge things can't as yet be effectively recycled, though some work is being done on that front, but for now, it's off to the municipal dump for them. Out of sight, out of mind, as the saying goes.