Novascapes, "If you don't think organic fertilizer can be a problem you need to read this" Just like someone said above, some orgainc farmers do more harm than in-orgainic, thats if the organic farmer doesn't know what they are doing. Let me put it to you this way, why is the bee population drooping? I'll give you a hint organic farmers did NOT do it. I have alot of synthetic fertilizers stored as they never go bad and I always find a use for them. Even slow release in-organic fertilizer wont hurt microbes but wont help the soil. I agree with in-organic farming even in ground as synthetic fertilizers are easier to ship, store, ect....

aachenelf, no offense taken on my part. I'm a little ticked that I chose to live in the city, partly to take advantage of things like convenient mass transit, only to find that, for where I want/need to go, it is little more convenient than it was when I lived in a third-tier suburb here. :-( As for why industry cannot do better, there are many many reasons. One is that, with gasoline at historically-low prices ($2.35/gallon this morning), it's not hard to sell excessively-large, heavy vehicles with large engines. People like the room to spread out, believe they are safer (they're not, but they think they are), and are led by marketing to believe that their choice of vehicle will address shortcomings in their anatomy or personality. So many people have bought into this that the car companies which catered to this desire are feeling the whip when the price of gasoline spikes. It does not help to have a federal government that is very much pro-business and anti-consumer. And, in fairness, that high-school-student-modified car cannot easily be matched by "Detroit" because cars have to endure far more extreme conditions than the mileage competition provided. We expect our cars to start and keep us reasonably comfortable at temperatures from -30F to 130F, to carry four-to-six adults with enough room for cargo, to be able to accelerate onto a rush-hour freeway without drama. All of these things are enemies of fuel mileage. No doubt, car manufacturers can do better. Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen -- all provide a starting point with their current efficient vehicles. Chrysler, Ford, and GM claiming they can't do this may start with a grain of truth. But they "can't" do this because it would cost them far too much in research & development and would sacrifice their high-margin vehicles -- making them even less attractive to their stockholders, most of whom don't care that much about our kind of "green".

Although my husband is now in a nursing home there are various pads that you can purchase to place under him. Although Walmart seems to have discontinued them pads for children's bedwetting or even mattress pads worked for a short while with my husband. They can be washed and since they have a plastic middle layer last a couple of months. Another product I have used is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FED594/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1  One thing that you could mention to him is that without wearing something to absorb the urine his wet clothing will cause him to have a very itchy red rash. Is he at the point that you must assist him with bathing? If he is watch the area leading up the crack between the butt cheeks for redness. This is one of the problems that can send people to nursing homes which is another thing that you should mention in passing.

Here is what I see are things to do. 1. most organics: down the drain or into compost holding bin. Move to the big compost. 2. most hard matter: sort and recycle. Store near the garage. 3. collect the rest in a temporary holding bin, and remove it to another place. By removing garbage, as often as you could imagine, you keep kitchen air drier and cleaner than otherwise. adamrainoff, to follow up on billl's thoughts, perhaps a good part of the solution will be clearer after thinking about ways to get trash out of the kitchen more often. No need to store it. Is this ok? I too was bothered when I found out there was no advanced solution for garbage. The final frontier: garbage management systems. What else can you do with garbage except manage it? in the 100 year forecast from a garbage management systems perspective i see people returning more and more containers, and one incentive could be the dollar they get for each of those containers made for this high value return system. Scavengers would love the dollar return too, and scavenging is a fine activity for many. Consumers could pay $1.10 at purchase and get $1 back at return; the ten cents funds the container management and handling system. -- Spendy high end kitchen cabinet manufacturers also have nothing specifically high end or different for garbage. High end manufacturers of kitchen system HARDWARE offer products in the thousands; none have anything elaborate for garbage. Plastic will do. Franke Kitchen Systems Inc, a hundred year old company; Blum (the company we all refer to because of its kitchen systems hardware like drawer glides and liftup springs for wall cabinets); Hettich, another European hardware company; What I'm saying is that millions of "Green" ecologically minded Europeans have nothing new to show us in terms of trash handling and management PRODUCTS. That's because it all about habits, not products that you buy and install. -- A plastic bin inside an expensive cabinet? "...I don't like that idea at all..." One solution is to remember that the cabinet and drawers are not expensive, so the dichotomy is not that great. (. : - ) . ) --