This summer I couldn't help but notice the proliferation of fruit flies when eating at various restaurants and at a picnic in a park. Wonder if the compost collection is the reason.

Have others noticed this or should I be picking better places to eat?

Robert, it seemed like the fruit flies were horrible this year. At home and out and about. Still fighting them at home.

That was some textbook buck-passing by Adams there. "Who, me?"

Sam Adams response is about the same argument made by folks saying how they have made great strides in reducing their carbon footprint by sending manufacturing off to China.

“We have a strong interest in protecting quality of life throughout the region, and we want to see the Nature’s Needs facility operated with as little impact on neighbors as is practical. But the city (of Portland) itself has no ability to direct where the compost goes or how it is managed,” Adams says.

So he has nothing to do with direction? He is the one who directed how we should use the slop pail and sent out reams of information “how to” when in fact and I have written about this before, Recology on their own website said that food waste is prohibited in yard debris. A real disconnect here and Adams doesn’t want to know
or care.

Adams should be made to live next to the facility.
Wonder how practical he would think it all is then.
Apparently he never learned about the golden rule.

It is Portland's fault.
Our city ought to apologize profusely for not recalling him long ago.
I am afraid our neighborhoods and other areas are next as a result of
"his practical directions!"

They put wetlands in all the parking lots and we had an increase in mosquitos. They make us put food slop into compost and we have an increase of vermin. They put in more "honor system" rail and we have an increase in crime. No wonder the suburbanites have taken up the "stop Portland creep" mantra.

If Mayor Adams said it, it must be true.

They put wetlands in all the parking lots and we had an increase in mosquitos. They make us put food slop into compost and we have an increase of vermin. They put in more "honor system" rail and we have an increase in crime. No wonder the suburbanites have taken up the "stop Portland creep" mantra.

So how do we get the word out across the country? As long as people keep flocking to "Eco-Nirvana", this kind of hypocrisy will continue being enabled.

So, should we start to advocate for organized rat, raccoon, coyote and opossum hunts throughout the city to combat the danger of the spread of disease within the city limits? Should we advocate the city license individuals to legally hunt those critters within the City of Portland? The rodent, and critter, population is up - at least in our neighborhood.

I've wondered myself, whether intervention from the CDC was in our future...

Of course we're green! And it isn't our fault PGE has a big huge power plant in Boardman, that is coal-fired, built specifically to evade pollution requirements, and is Portland's largest source of electric generation.

Or that we ship all our garbage to Arlington or McMinnville...that isn't our fault!

Or that each weekend, tens of thousands of Portlanders pile into their SUVs and drive to Mount Hood, or Lincoln City, or Seaside, or Seattle, or Eugene - they don't take mass transit, they DRIVE! But that isn't Portland's fault either.

If Sammyboy thinks Portland is not at fault for the stink; is he taking personal responsibility for food scraps and slop being commingled with yard debris? He was sure trying to get into everybody’s kitchen when he was hyping - and taking responsibility for - the use of those worthless made in Canada slop buckets. I’ve offered to give mine away to several neighbors, but alas, it still sits outside out of sight just a few feet from the garbage can. Instead of Portland city government adding to urban sprawl and increased fuel consumption by having haulers take the commingled stink all the way to North Plains, maybe the City should find a place adjacent to Kenton as a place to dump it.

Send all the work you want to Arlington and Boardman please. Dirty or otherwise. There's plenty of work still going on in this area but we could always use more.

Thanks,
JO :-)

Mark wrote: rat, raccoon, coyote and opossum hunts

When all forms of grocery bags are outlawed, for-profit grocery stores are driven out of town, and all food raised more than ten miles away is outlawed, this will be called "weekly shopping".