Why not landfills?

Wgpj,
I never thought about the fish guts being bad for a landfill/environment. I assume it would decompose better and faster than most things that get thrown away. Why is it not a good thing? I will defiantly do it different.

You're barking at the wrong tree... 70% of American food are wasted and ended up in the trash... what do you think restaurants do with the leftover? You guessed it trash can...
I say you have more to fear from your neighbors than to worry about landfills...the wild hogs coyotes and turkey vultures are in charge of the bio waste at the landfills.

just curious...why not throw them in the trash, gosh knows the landfills need something that is truly biodegradable! They will also feed the birds that hang out there!
I gotta dry creek bed a couple miles from the house. I figure it will feed the coons, possums and coyotes.

I used to throw my fish remains in Rowlett creek in Allen. They were never there the next day. Racoons, Turtles, etc always disposed of them.

Now days I put them in a compost pile along side my house. The dog has no access to this area and cannot dig them up. If you bury fish under 6-8 inches of compost they will not smell and will be digested in a week to 10 days. This makes excellent fertilizer for my Veggie garden and flower beds. I have an eggplant that looks like a small oak tree that had a crappie put under it when I planted it.

Don't throw the fish in the trash. Your neighbors will hate you.

Catch and release

No can do, the grill would be unemployed.

Yes, organics are thrown into the garbage because no one has come up with a solution to prevent it, ie a way to recycle/compost food scraps for the masses. Since as yet we have no alternative, we must throw organics into our garbage. We have no choice, unfortunately. It takes up landfill space and creates greenhouse gases. The EPA and others are searching for a solution. Once in a landfill and covered, it does not replenish the earth. It gets mixed with chemicals rendering it useless. Again, throwing it back in the lake feeds the ecosystem.

http://compostingcouncil.org/admin/wp-co...ition-Paper.pdf

You eat more sushi than most people I know, Austin

EPA? PFfffffftttttt..... (the sound of greenhouse gasses escaping from my indifference). Heck, the EPA recently destroyed an entire, formerly pristine, river system in Colorado.... and they may have even done it on purpose to justify a new budget...

Seriously though, I do have a veggie garden and I am thinking of watching a youtube video or something to learn how to compost to make my garden really grow.

Go for it Brocephus. Composting is a good thing to do. Beneficial to all and makes yummy veggies.

So I have this friend who is always fighting with the city about trash, breaking down his boxs and lots of other stuff. He lives about 3 blocks away so I put them in his trash can. Problem solved.

I think I will WGPJ. Good idea, thank you. I can also use the veggie scraps left over form the juicer. Should make for nice fertilizer.

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Thats a funny story!!