Now that composting is all the rage, what are the rats and seagulls doing for a living at the landfills & dumps?

What ? ? ?

Most of the rats joined the Republican part and wear MAGA hats.

Seriously, although composting is perhaps more prevalent than it was 10 years ago – and I am not sure of that, at all – the percentage of people who compost is still incredibly small. It’s less than 4% in the US, and slightly higher in Europe. So it is hardly “all the rage”. Anywhere.

Don’t worry, there is plenty of food for the seagulls, rodents, and other scavengers.

My girlfriend stopped composting at her house when the rats started coming.

The seagulls will eat the rats.

Most people don’t compost. There’s no shortage of garbage.

I compost as part of the “green” container for garden clippings and leaves. We don’t have any problems with rats. But the green bins go to a biomass center, and are composted where there is plenty of access for bugs and worms and birds and vermin.

I’ve composted for 20 years ZERO rats and seagulls !

What kind of meat scraps are you putting into your compost ? ? ? Vegetable and fruit scraps only ! ! Nothing cooked or baked !

The seagulls are massively following fishing boats now, and the rats have started learning how to become flying rats, also known as pigeons.

They are forming gangs and singing and dancing as they attack each other and feast on victims of the violence.

Composting here only involves leaves, tree branches, grass clippings, egg shells, coffee grounds, vegetable/fruit table leavings, etc. No bones, meat, pet poop, dairy, grease or grains. So there must be plenty of dead meat stuff, cheese to eat. Plus not all know or seem to care what’s what or where it’s supposed to go.

Grains should be OK, shouldn’t they @kritiper? Grains are just a form of grass.

Why do people compost?

@Dutchess_III You might think grains are OK but not here. Excluding grains mean they don’t sprout in your landscaped areas.
Here they compost to keep excess material out of the landfill. They make the compost available to home owners and other businesses, parks, etc. for landscaping use.
It’s a good idea to compost and keep these materials out of landfills.
“With China’s recent decision to stop importing recycled materials, the US is in danger of running out of space for it’s trash. America has been forced to dispose of 676,000 metric tons of waste this year that would have otherwise been sent to China. At current rates, most Northeastern landfills will be full by 2029; the rest of the country’s landfills will be at capacity by 2036.” -theoutline.com found in “THE WEEK magazine, May 25, 2018

OIC about the grains. Thanks. Yeah I threw some half eaten ears of corn out in the yard one time and several months later we had ears of corn growing in the yard! It was kind of fun.

I’m pretty sure they weren’t sending grass and tree limbs to China. It would be a whole lot more cost effective to burn them than to ship them overseas. I’m pretty sure they sent mostly plastic for recycling (but I will check.)

We compost to a certain extent by taking downed tree limbs to the city composting site. We don’t rake leaves and just let them compost back into the yard. Food stuffs just goes down the garbage disposal or I may just throw it out behind the garage where the trash is for the possums and whoever, so we aren’t sending any food to the land fill.

I also recycle as much as I possibly can.

Accountants mostly, some of the less skilled among them earn a living as waitresses, relying on tips to scrape by.