[LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Adam Todd]

At 02:00 PM 29/08/2006, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
>Marghanita da Cruz [marghanita at ramin.com.au] wrote:
> > Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> > >Adam Todd [link at todd.inoz.com] wrote:
> > >
> > >>At 10:26 AM 29/08/2006, Karl Auer wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:56 +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>If people think this is trivial...we are paying 4x$291 for the removal
> > >>>>of 1 partly filled 240l garbage bin each week and a 1x120l blue and
> > >>>>yellow recycle bin on alternate weeks.
> > >>>
> > >>>Can you opt out of the system entirely? It might be cheaper to have NO
> > >>>collection service, and cart the waste to the nearest tip yourself.
> > >>
> > >>Taking waste to the tip doesn't work.  You are not permitted to bring
> > >>food waste and packaging to the tip.
> > >
> > >
> > >you are at out tip. shop around.
> >
> > better still compost it!
>
>composting in an urban enviroment is a disaster. it attracts every bug
>and cockroach in the area.  I would never do it again unless I was on a farm.
>
>composting is for farms not the inner city.

That's rubbish.  If you establish proper common sense composting protocols, 
you get no bugs, an increase in worm and witchety grubs and a lot of great 
soil!

We've composted for years.  We had no cockroaches until the people next 
door and two doors down moved in.  Since then it's been near 
uncontrollable, but they don't go near our compost.