News on the Recylcing Front!

Big News! After much complaining and many calls to city services, we are getting curbside recycling! It actually had nothing to do with me and my loudmouth complaints, but was solely influenced by city budget cuts.
The details: until a few weeks ago, we weren't qualified to receive curbside recycling because a private company picked up our trash dumpster. If you do this, the city would give you a few bucks because they didn't have to do it. They've gotten rid of this subsidy though because of the current economic situation, you know. So our landlord is taking away the dumpster. This means we are eligible for recycling! This also means that we have to throw our trash in the street (pictured above), but finally we can stop hoarding our plastic goods!

Box of Worms Disaster

In an effort to combat certain policies that Kansas City has about recycling (they disagree with it), we've decided to go overboard! We've been trying to make a worm compost bin with little success. We started it a few weeks ago and only got about twenty worms (it turns out you need hundreds) and it turned into a disgusting poo smelling mess. We think the problem is that it is way too wet in the bin and not enough worms.

We haven't completely giving up though, and my dad bought us some worms online and had them sent to our apartment. They didn't quite make it though, they were sent by this company in a cloth bag with some newspaper in a cardboard box. How can they live like that? They can't it turns out. Anyway, we're still hopeful and there is still a bin that smells like rotting food and mayo on the back porch/garbage zone. In a similar vein, still no recycling for our apartment complex, even though I called the city to argue with someone about it! They are stubborn devils!