No, compostable bags don’t go in the green bin
Amie Windsor, PRESS DEMOCRAT
Rob Carey was surprised after garbage pickup day to see the pink notice affixed to his green bin.
The note left for the Sebastopol resident was a soft reprimand from the city’s curbside hauler, Sonoma County Resource Recovery.
Carey, who regards himself a considerate customer, had been called out for for using green compostable bags to discard his fruit and vegetable scraps.
“They said, ‘We don’t want that,’” he said, confounded. “And here I thought these bags were good.”
Carey considers himself a ‘recycler,’ so he was surprised to learn he’d been going about his green waste disposal in the wrong way.
He is likely not alone.
While single-use bags labeled as compostable are an alternative for plastic bags, they are not be disposed of in the green bins used to collect compostable waste, including food scraps and yard debris.