I'm not sure. I imagine you do everything to minimize rodent infestation first: make sure your garbage area is clean and can lids are secure.
Are you from NYC? Manhattan, specifically. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and one of the first things that shocked me about NYC was the insane...
It gets turned into a fine organic mulch. :D
Waste Management, the agency Alameda County contracts with, occasionally provides free bags of this rich compost to residents in big bags like you get at the plant nursery. I spread it out on my fruit trees and other shrubs. Good stuff. I think WM...
It's really very easy. Brown = landfill. Gray = recyclables. Green = yard/food waste.
You can essentially recycle anything curbside, pick-up, or drop off. From everyday metal and plastics you can stick in your recycling can to designated centers for dropping off old paint cans, batteries, and...
Food scrap recycling is generally a city/county based program where household food waste can be recycled by a municipal agency.
Fortunately, my county, Alameda County in California (pop. ~1.5 million) has been diverting millions of pounds of food waste from the landfill since 1990.
Food scrap...
Here's the original article from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html?tid=pm_pop .
It's pretty lurid. Here's an excerpt:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/10/national/w083439D47.DTL
Mitt Romney apologized Thursday to classmates he may have offended by "hijinks and pranks during high school" and insisted he didn't know that some were gay.
The Republican presidential candidate issued the...
These are the websites I check regularly:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ - BBC
sfgate.com - San Francisco Chronicle
nytimes.com - New York Times
enn.com - Environmental News Network
cnn.com - CNN
npr.org - National Public Radio
And of course, on the dark side ...
drudgereport.com
Good for him.
I actually found this piece of the story to be the most offensive.
While it's clear that politicians pander to their constituents to stay in power (in this case the good people of Bakersfield, California), what makes this part of the story so salient to the gay rights debate...
For the record: the United Auto Workers, Exelon, Ford, General Electric, Dow Chemical Company, Shell, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and DuPont all supportthe American Clean Energy and Security Act.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090515/hr2454_support.pdf
If both industry and...