And this is why the Columbia Biogas deal needs to be gone over, over and over again, before a penny of city money goes into it. I'm far too familiar with how this game works not to figure that, amazingly, suddenly the timeframe and the budget expand the moment it's too late to back out.

Well, I see that Recology has changed their website.

Recently, I looked at their site and I left the links on here,
where the Recology website said Food Waste was prohibited.
I don't have time right now to find when I wrote about it on the blog,
maybe later.

I imagine Sam got to them too!
More backroom maneuvering?

If food waste was prohibited then why allow it now?

Yes Jack, in so many ways our community's livability is being sacrificed.

Portland city hall stinks big time. Remember its Bureau of Sustainability talking about a Texas sized plastic bag island floating in the Northern Pacific. Turns out not even Greenpeace and OSU environmental researchers could stomach such far out exaggeration. Why should we believe Portland's green efforts such as running three trucks through neighborhoods everyother week and two in the off weeks is any more environmentally beneficial than just running one big truck once per week? And is it really sustainable if the composting is bleeding public monies. Even the city auditor questions the financially sustainability of city hall's manic moves said to be for the environment.

Unfortunately, city hall isn't likely to get any better after Adams and Leonard leave, seeing how juveniles like Tre Arrow poll with significant votes.

Nobody could have imagined a problem like this.

Forget North Plains (well don't, but it's just a figure of speech), my backyard smelled pretty bad too, before the freeze.

I still can't imagine what summer will bring to every quarter of the city. Also think of all the trash dumped in parks, medians, &c.

That's when it will hit home: We gave up our basic, modern civic standards of sanitation (and more of our money) for some magic beans.

Hey Smart Set, have you saved the world yet? How about now? Please stop coughing for a moment and answer ...

Some years ago there was a composting facility about 4800 NE Columbia. It is now the site of a metal recycling company. That place smelled up the entire Cully neighborhood with only green stuff. How is the plant in N Plains supposed to be any better with nastier waste?

I wonder if a voter initiative mandating that all food scraps be "recycled" at Portland City Hall could gain traction?

Who could have predicted this: anyone with credible experience in large scale waste commercialization operations. Therefore, we may deduce: nobody with credible experience in large scale waste commercialization operations was included in the decision to create this program.

As Jay Sherman would say, "it stinks!"

Who could have predicted this...

I think we can fairly well predict by now that most everything coming out of the city these days is botched!

We simply do not have wise leaders or decision makers. The only other sad conclusion for us all is that they do not care!

Call it green, sustainable or eco and away they go! Of course they have their little army of followers. What say they about the hypocrisy and problems? Jumping on the bandwagon with words because it might sound good doesn't make it so.

It is almost like Adams is trying to pad his resume for somewhere else, but leaving us with a trail of garbage.

I am very concerned about putting this "stuff" on our agricultural lands. This isn't as simple as "simply recycling." Now we have antibiotics, hormones, etc. in some food products that now can be thrown in with yard debris. How cool is that? Remember prior to this the Recology website said food wastes were prohibited in with yard debris!
What happened for them to change?

Clinamen, won't Recolic's bags of soil supplements have all contents listed like hormones and antibiotic?

I'm sure Oregon and Federal Health and Food agencies will require it. Other soil supplement companies do. It will be a long list when they print out "This product may cause one-eyed frogs, harm worms, taint tuber vegetables....do not eat more than 8 oz's of vegetables per daily consumption..."

lw,
It seems right down the line, the theme is that money trumps while human considerations and our quality of life matters little to those who are making these decisions for us. Who cares if our soil is ruined, who cares about living creatures, who cares if we ingest something questionable? Sad scene.

How recent is this addition of "food waste" that has been allowed now to be added to composts and what kind of long term studies and/or research has been done? What would we do if we find out later that the effects of this type of compost spread all over is damaging? What about the health of the people in North Plains?

In my view, people need to know what is happening here and not just be dictated to that this is the plan now without getting answers to these questions?

What kind of inspections are done? Not everyone is going to be careful about what they throw into those yard debris containers.

Is this going to be spread all over our valley on where food is grown, orchards, vineyards, where?

What do organic farmers think of this plan?