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  Styrofoam (polystyrene) recycling in King Cty WA?

  I can't find anything in the Grist website or "Wake Up and Smell the Planet" about recycling polystyrene
  (trade name "Styrofoam" - see Wickipedia) instead of putting it into the garbage and landfill. We have many cubic yards of chunks of packaging materials and even more bags of pellets that we need to clean out of our home, but garbage/trash seems the wrong way to go. Our Allied Waste service in Lake Forest Park WA won't let us put it in the Recycling bin, and of course not in th garbage/yard waste one, so garbage is the only option. The King County website has no clue, and we're sure it isn't "hazardous waste" or "techno-trash." Do you know what our options are, and why web search (Google and Good Search) produce no useful links? Isn't this a problem for everyone on the planet?

  This seems like the kind of thing Grist likes to attack, and that Ask Umbra and your supportive Comment fans might have good ideas about! can we do it, together, team?On Umbra on hybrid myths posted 1 year, 2 months ago 6 Responses

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  flushable doggie-doo bags

  Based upon discussion on page 42 in "Wake Up and Smell the Planet", and in Umbra's material (same text) I have checked all of the local pet stores in north Seattle, Shoreline and Lake Forest Park, WA. All carry "biodegradable" bags and would like to know brand-names for the flushable type, but don't carry any now because they don't know where to get them.

  Nothing on your site, nor anything Google can find, gives me an answer! Are there really any such bags, and if so, who makes or sells them?

  I'm just pet-sitting my daughter's dog for a couple of weeks, and have previously "recycled" supermarket vegetable bags to put his poop into Allied Waste trash (since they won't accept pet waste in recycle or yard waste) where it probably won't biodegrade. I just bought a package of biodegradable, compostable BioBag Dog, which I can use in our compost bin, but their response to an email query says these are NOT water-soluble (so not flushable).

  Bob MooreOn Umbra on doggie-doo bags posted 1 year, 10 months ago 6 Responses