ecoFAIL

Our next approach was to talk to the Building Association ourselves. After meeting a very nice neighbor, we asked if they had any idea who to contact about building issues. They were nice enough to dig around in their papers and produce the name and number of who was in charge. I was thrilled! Now we were getting somewhere! Matt gave them a ring and left a message, phone tag was played for a couple weeks. In the end, the guy was very against having a green bin in the trash room. Citing the rat problem as one of the reasons. I was a little confused by this. My first reaction was ‘rat problem?! What rat problem?!’ Then I started thinking more about how ludicrous this reason really is. Rats can’t really chew holes in solid plastic like what the trashcans are made of and if they could we would already have a problem because it is the exact same trash we currently have just divided up differently. Rats aren’t sitting there thinking ‘well if you put it in the GREEN bin we will help ourselves! We don’t touch black bins’.

He also suggested that we put together a presentation to give to the association explaining how the green bins would work. This also baffled me. What could be simpler than you put food in it and people come and empty the bin? What was there to explain or give a presentation on?? It operated in the same manner as the other bins. Matt and I joked about mock presentations, having little cartoony characters placing food scraps into green bins and smiling workers carting it off to the compost center.

I was beginning to feel very defeated. There had to be a way to make this work...