The food waste was always there for bears. Either in a trash bag, compost bucket or backyard pile.

Hell yeah!

That said, burying makes the most sense

I used to work with restaurants that would use commercial models. It's a great solution to reduce food scrap volume for storage and collection frequency. Outside of solar supported power it just seems like a waste of energy for backyard composting

Enforcing it door-to-door does seem excessive, but it is quite frustrating that they just magically removed the requirement for all hauler to offer it.

To say it is usable compost/soil in 24 hrs is a strech. All they do is grind up and dehydrate the items you put in there.

Add water, and you have a ground up pile of food waste.

Have you ever used it as soil for any house plants?

It only gets crushed into mixed glass in VT and never gets recycled back into glass items. The only valuable glass to glass recycling programs keep colors separate

This is definitely true for the easy to recycle materials. However, a redemption program is ideal for collecting clear glass bottles and other materials that lose value when they are co-mingled at the curb/blue bin.

Deposit/redemption is a great program for hard to recycle materials. Aluminum cans are one of the easiest materials to collect, separate, and recycle. Glass is another story. If we could collect ALL glass beverage containers and separate them by color, it would be a huge win for the redemption system.

The fact that it just stops there is silly, but this little stretch of bike path really takes the cake. Gmaps won't even use it, but there is a path from point to point that you can see on satellite.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VzPEikruRXvqPuWi6

Or Stratton in southern VT

Definitely Stowe. Best family experience and easy to get to from the airport