ROCK ON SEATTLE! Last year we instituted a law that says "SAY NO! to Stryro!"
Restaurants have to use compostable products! The forerunners in this whole process for the most part were the active students at the University of Washington in Seattle. They pushed forward with an initiative to get composting and compostable products available on campus. Check out this article from the student newspaper the UW Daily. By July of this year all restaurants in the city of Seattle will have to switch over. Many already have! Seattle's own KOMO 4 News ran a story back in October 2009 about the switch. The most striking info I found was that each and EVERY day a train loaded with over 3 tons of trash heads down to Oregon---it stretches nearly a MILE! EVERY DAY. Lets do the math--365 days x 6,000 lbs=2,190,000 -that is 2 million, one hundred and ninety thousand pounds each year!
How many people live in Seattle? Wikipedia has Seattle at a metro population of 3,344,813 so each and every one of us throws out over a 1/2 lb of waste EACH DAY! That is over 182.5 lbs of trash PER PERSON each YEAR! The Clean Air council double quadruples (how to you say 8x) my estimate at a whopping 4.39 POUNDS/Per person PER day!
OK people that is JUST RIDICULOUS!
OK people that is JUST RIDICULOUS!
I'm SO sorry Oregon! Beautiful Oregon---ya'll probably have enough waste of your own don't you think? What if Seattle had to KEEP all that trash? Geez...............do you think we would think twice about what we do with it?
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