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Pelosi Wants Banana Peels for Capitol Compost

By Paul Bedard

October 7, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol green campaign is gunning for banana peels. Congressional offices are being encouraged to use compost bins to collect veggie and fruit peels for later use in Capitol gardens. The Architect of the Capitol wants a bin in every office kitchen. Some staffers are holding their nose. "Imagine that smell in the kitchen as meeting attendees walk by," says a Senate Democratic aide. "Lovely."

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nader paul kucinich gravel of IL 12:45PM October 15, 2009

Composting does provides green jobs as mentioned, and it also provides an important agricultural soil amendment that can reduce our dependence on fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides, which is important not only for national security but for our food security. So quit sniping all you naysayers and start taking responsibility for the waste you generate every day. If you don't compost it yourself, then at least take advantage of the programs in your area which can divert that material to good use.

H-man of CA 12:28PM October 12, 2009

How about recycling all that hot air from those gasbags?

00JA/100 of NY 9:39PM October 09, 2009

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