On Sep 24, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>>>> FWIW, our local Starbucks saves their used grounds and gives them >>>>> away in 10 >>>>> pound bags for free, just for this purpose. >>>> "Starbucks" and "free" rarely fit in the same sentence. They'll >>>> probably fire your local manager if the corporate bosses find out. >>> He/she/it is saving commercial waste disposal rates, so will be >>> commended. OTOH, it is therefore probably illegal in any country >>> with >>> environmental laws of any description. >> >> Both of the most local Starbux Coffee shops do this too. >> >> I don't know what would be environmentally unfriendly about it ... >> coffee grounds and paper filters compost nicely, better than a lot of >> other things. >> > Environmental Laws and Environmentally safe are often at direct odds. > Something can be perfectly safe to the environment (Or even > beneficial) > and be against environmental laws.
Not sure why you posted that commentary, Adam. - Are you aware of some laws which do not permit composting of coffee grounds and paper filters? - I don't know of anything environmentally unfriendly about the practice ... do you? Made me curious so I did a search on "compost coffee" and got quite a few links: http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Business/coffeefert.htm http://gardening.wsu.edu/stewardship/compost/coffee.htm http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/soil/2002015354019975.html http://www.mastercomposter.com/survey/coffee.html http://freebies.about.com/cs/free/l/blstarbucks.htm http://www.peets.com/who_we_are/community_soil.asp?rdir=1&; http://frugalliving.about.com/od/uncommonuses/a/coffeegrounds.htm I also did a search on "compost coffee legal issues" and got a few somewhat more abstruse links: http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/coffeeFAQ.html <http://www.crn.org.uk/regional/sw/downloads/ schcompdevoncountycouncil.pdf#search=%22compost%20legal%20issues%22> <http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/PDFS/CompChal.pdf#search=%22compost% 20legal%20issues%22> http://www.elc.uvic.ca/getinvolved/index.htm Interesting reading for some. Boring as heck for others. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
