Two gallons is pretty big. All of us in Portland are going to have make room for these things in our kitchens? On top of the half-dozen compartments we already have for several different kinds of recycling?
Some days it's as though we've been kidnapped and taken away to some sort of strange cult camp. The guy running it has a bow tie and a big bicycle pin on.
honestly, i am excited for the every week pickup of the green bin. my compost i already deal with on site... so that bin will probably end up as a diaper pail.
Given the rat population in my neighborhood and most of SW, this is gonna be a cluster. Bad enough that I had to deal with mice in the kitchen a few years back. And I read their flier. I mean bones and coffee grounds, not exactly compost material. It's loony.
This thing is creepy to look at, but then creepy fits the agenda.
I couldn't possibly have this on my counter, loss of appetite just looking at it.
Made in China?
Would like to know how many were purchased and the cost?
Hi Jack:
This slop bucket somehow reminds me of the "honey bucket" from a past time in Japan and possibly China? I think those were emptied daily in the morning and poured on the garden for fertilizer. Same song different verse.
Where does the compost go? Does it go to private parties such as local food growers?
If it goes to a private party or parties, then is it not a direct government subsidy to a private party who has profit as one purpose for conducting business?
I'm taking mine to city hall each time I visit. I can't wait for the reaction when the security guard opens it. And better yet, seeing Sam and Council wondering what I'll do with it inside chambers.
Why can't Portland, or better yet all of Metro, have it's own Arab Spring? How much abuse do we need to take while the SustaiManipuri take over our cities and run us into debt while they walk around with fat wallets and swelled heads? At least we still get to vote.
Citizens need to rise up against this latest indignity. Why as a free person am I not allowed to contract with a garbage company to take my refuse once a week? The government has become so all encompassing that I am not allowed to choose my own lightbulb, or toilet. I am forced to subsidize an inefficient green energy movement that relies on subsidies and high energy costs. The green movement has a very real totalitarian element to it. There's a reason they call them watermelons - green on the outside and red on the inside.
John - We are not allowed to choose our garbage collectors either. Waste Mgt. would not be my choice. I miss Miller's with their great service (up my old drive for the cans and no hill fees and no cans strewn all over). But monopolies benefit political campaigns.
I really loathe that each one of these things has a smug slogan on it: "Portland Recycles!" - "Portland Composts!"
Does that mean if the City comes up with a low volume toilet that we must all install and use, it will have the words: "Portland Excretes!" emblazoned on the front?
My wife and I live upstairs. Two tenants live downstairs. 4 of us, weekly garbage service for a ~30 gallon container has always worked great. We already recycle in the blue cart, manage compost on site, yard debris in the green container. I wrote the city saying "you expect that our food waste will cut our garbage pickup by 50%?", citing that we have nearly no food waste to begin with, and that food waste does not take up much volume, that we compost it on-site, and still need the weekly garge pickups. They wrote me back volumes - pilot was a-ok, try it you'll like it, hey look at the long list of things you can put in there, etc, blah, blah. I'm supposed to be excited I can throw meat, bones, egg shells, pasta, rice, bread, etc. in this thing now? Who in their right mind is throwing away large volumes of pasta, rice, and bread, because as a distance runner, I'd love to come over to your house for dinner if you routinely prepare so much food you can't eat it! Bottom line is now I have to pay for more expensive garbage service and get one of those 60-gallon rollcarts. Couldn't they fix the streets or maintain the city bathrooms in the parks in my area instead of forcing this on me? Like I said, I already compost on-site and am diligent about recycling. My workplace downtown has a commercial kitchen and we added food composting years ago because it was the right thing to do. We hoped it would reduce our overall garbage volume, but it did not do so to the extent we could reduce garbage service frequency.
That two gallon pail is pretty big and has our attention...
as the example above points out, and in my view, it is really about getting some people to pay more and not so much about reducing our overall garbage volume, but reducing our service.
This can be done with propaganda that we all pay for, and many doing all this busy work for a "feel good" towards the planet, while corporate culprits not only continue but escalate their abuse in our planet.
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Comments (38)
Watch how many recycling bins Penn & Teller foist on this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3CZBDz7Wg
Posted by DANEgerus | September 30, 2011 9:57 AM
Cult camp is right. I hope these "officials" don't ever feel threatened and hopelessy surrounded. They'd want want us all to take cyanide pills.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | September 30, 2011 10:00 AM
Some of us already have compost containers on our counters. It's not that big a deal. Definitely a first world problem... ;o)
Posted by Jill-O | September 30, 2011 10:07 AM
Seems Portland is going the way of some algae: blue-green. Could this not have been attempted by persuasion rather than mandate?
Posted by Sally | September 30, 2011 10:15 AM
Shouldn't there be a hole in the seat?
Posted by Allan L. | September 30, 2011 10:23 AM
honestly, i am excited for the every week pickup of the green bin. my compost i already deal with on site... so that bin will probably end up as a diaper pail.
Posted by george | September 30, 2011 10:31 AM
The one-gallon jar we keep under the sink for food scraps is big enough and uses less space.
Posted by PdxMark | September 30, 2011 10:32 AM
My 2 gallon pail is a 2&1/2 horse power garbage disposal machine, made in America.
Posted by phil | September 30, 2011 10:47 AM
It is even harder to believe that there are so many people that accept this without question.
Posted by Larry Norton | September 30, 2011 11:05 AM
If Tigard cuts my garbage pick-up, I'll move to Clark County, Washington.
I remember when they picked up twice weekly.
Posted by Jennifer | September 30, 2011 11:27 AM
Larry - it's not 'acceptance' it's force.
And what are supposed to do when the corrupt leaders never listen or cares?
Posted by Indie | September 30, 2011 11:40 AM
Big and super-ugly. Don't want it on my countertop and under the counter is already jammed with recycling and trash. Thanks Samsusan.
Posted by Elizabeth | September 30, 2011 11:54 AM
What a total waste of money on each of these containers. I intend to "recycle" mine on the steps of city hall.
Posted by teresa | September 30, 2011 11:56 AM
Given the rat population in my neighborhood and most of SW, this is gonna be a cluster. Bad enough that I had to deal with mice in the kitchen a few years back. And I read their flier. I mean bones and coffee grounds, not exactly compost material. It's loony.
Posted by LucsAdvo | September 30, 2011 12:26 PM
Cut garbage service. Raise the price. Once again, we take it in the a**. When will it stop?
Posted by RJBob | September 30, 2011 12:50 PM
It's nice that they thought of the coyotes for a change.
Posted by observer | September 30, 2011 1:05 PM
This is definitely not going to survive the attentions of our 15-pound always-hungry tomcat that we have on a diet.
Posted by John Rettig | September 30, 2011 1:35 PM
Jack, for curbside recycling, should have exactly two containers for recycling: glass, and everything else. Why do you have a half-dozen?
Posted by Evan Manvel | September 30, 2011 2:10 PM
It looks like a plastic grocery bag should work just fine as a liner.
Oh, wait. Never mind....
Posted by Michelle | September 30, 2011 2:36 PM
I prefer my SS bucket with the tight fitting lid that has charcoal filters
That thing will be swarmed by fruit flies in 3 hours.
It is also ugly!
Posted by Portland Native | September 30, 2011 2:47 PM
This thing is creepy to look at, but then creepy fits the agenda.
I couldn't possibly have this on my counter, loss of appetite just looking at it.
Made in China?
Would like to know how many were purchased and the cost?
Posted by clinamen | September 30, 2011 2:51 PM
I'm so happy it has exciting, embossed lettering on it to keep me from forgetting what it's for! So happy! Portland! Yeah!
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | September 30, 2011 3:33 PM
How abou emptying a couple of those full containers on Sammy Boy's head? Maybe he might get the message...
Posted by Dave A. | September 30, 2011 3:39 PM
Shouldn't it be colored green? Oh wait a minute=brown is appropriate.
Posted by Kathe W. | September 30, 2011 4:02 PM
Hi Jack:
This slop bucket somehow reminds me of the "honey bucket" from a past time in Japan and possibly China? I think those were emptied daily in the morning and poured on the garden for fertilizer. Same song different verse.
Posted by Michael Whitmore | September 30, 2011 4:37 PM
Where does the compost go? Does it go to private parties such as local food growers?
If it goes to a private party or parties, then is it not a direct government subsidy to a private party who has profit as one purpose for conducting business?
Posted by Killiana1a | September 30, 2011 5:10 PM
Killiana1a - they plan on selling it back to you.
And I'm not joking.
Posted by Indie | September 30, 2011 5:28 PM
But it's just in time...for Halloween!
Paint it orange and you have your official Portlandia Jack O'Lantern.
Oooh, Very scary! (Don't forget to put a bird on it.)
Posted by Old Zeb | September 30, 2011 5:48 PM
I'm taking mine to city hall each time I visit. I can't wait for the reaction when the security guard opens it. And better yet, seeing Sam and Council wondering what I'll do with it inside chambers.
Posted by lw | September 30, 2011 7:39 PM
lw,
Great idea, we can begin using them as our briefcases when we visit city hall,
or a file box to keep all their many brochures.
Posted by clinamen | September 30, 2011 11:31 PM
Why can't Portland, or better yet all of Metro, have it's own Arab Spring? How much abuse do we need to take while the SustaiManipuri take over our cities and run us into debt while they walk around with fat wallets and swelled heads? At least we still get to vote.
Posted by Nolo | October 1, 2011 6:28 AM
That should read: Sustainability Overlords above. My device made a strange substitution.
Posted by Nolo | October 1, 2011 6:31 AM
Citizens need to rise up against this latest indignity. Why as a free person am I not allowed to contract with a garbage company to take my refuse once a week? The government has become so all encompassing that I am not allowed to choose my own lightbulb, or toilet. I am forced to subsidize an inefficient green energy movement that relies on subsidies and high energy costs. The green movement has a very real totalitarian element to it. There's a reason they call them watermelons - green on the outside and red on the inside.
Posted by John | October 1, 2011 11:57 AM
The more I look at this slop pail bucket, the more I want to gag,
oops - more in that bucket!
Posted by clinamen | October 1, 2011 1:05 PM
John - We are not allowed to choose our garbage collectors either. Waste Mgt. would not be my choice. I miss Miller's with their great service (up my old drive for the cans and no hill fees and no cans strewn all over). But monopolies benefit political campaigns.
Posted by LucsAdvo | October 1, 2011 4:19 PM
I really loathe that each one of these things has a smug slogan on it: "Portland Recycles!" - "Portland Composts!"
Does that mean if the City comes up with a low volume toilet that we must all install and use, it will have the words: "Portland Excretes!" emblazoned on the front?
Posted by NW Portlander | October 2, 2011 12:19 PM
My wife and I live upstairs. Two tenants live downstairs. 4 of us, weekly garbage service for a ~30 gallon container has always worked great. We already recycle in the blue cart, manage compost on site, yard debris in the green container. I wrote the city saying "you expect that our food waste will cut our garbage pickup by 50%?", citing that we have nearly no food waste to begin with, and that food waste does not take up much volume, that we compost it on-site, and still need the weekly garge pickups. They wrote me back volumes - pilot was a-ok, try it you'll like it, hey look at the long list of things you can put in there, etc, blah, blah. I'm supposed to be excited I can throw meat, bones, egg shells, pasta, rice, bread, etc. in this thing now? Who in their right mind is throwing away large volumes of pasta, rice, and bread, because as a distance runner, I'd love to come over to your house for dinner if you routinely prepare so much food you can't eat it! Bottom line is now I have to pay for more expensive garbage service and get one of those 60-gallon rollcarts. Couldn't they fix the streets or maintain the city bathrooms in the parks in my area instead of forcing this on me? Like I said, I already compost on-site and am diligent about recycling. My workplace downtown has a commercial kitchen and we added food composting years ago because it was the right thing to do. We hoped it would reduce our overall garbage volume, but it did not do so to the extent we could reduce garbage service frequency.
Posted by Roy | October 3, 2011 6:56 AM
That two gallon pail is pretty big and has our attention...
as the example above points out, and in my view, it is really about getting some people to pay more and not so much about reducing our overall garbage volume, but reducing our service.
This can be done with propaganda that we all pay for, and many doing all this busy work for a "feel good" towards the planet, while corporate culprits not only continue but escalate their abuse in our planet.
Posted by clinamen | October 3, 2011 8:36 AM