# Are Your Family and Friends Doing Much for the Environment?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 27, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-your-family-and-friends-doing-much-for-the-environment/995238 "2023-12-27T15:38:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-your-family-and-friends-doing-much-for-the-environment/995238/12 "2023-12-27T19:37:59Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> The composting is just as easy - and more stuff not going to the landfill.

Careful…the city might sue you! (they probably won’t but it has happened):

> [@Palm Beach County owns your trash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palm-beach-county-owns-your-trash/993704):
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> Well, maybe not your trash; but residents’ trash. Palm Beach County, Florida, is making commercial worm composting illegal, saying it owns the rights to residents’ trash. Mel Corichi originally founded her worm farm and community composting business,[L](https://www.letitrot.org/about-3)[e](https://www.letitrot.org/about-3)[t](https://www.letitrot.org/about-3)[I](https://www.letitrot.org/about-3)[t Rot,](https://www.letitrot.org/about-3) in partnership with the Palm Beach County Food Bank in 2015 to reduce food waste. She would feed the food bank’s expired donations to her worms. The worm droppings, or castings, would create fertile soil, which could be utilized as…

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