Colm O'Regan: I’m enjoying turning a waste-frown upside down

It’s time to talk rot. Not rancid rot. Not breaddy rot or chickeny rot. Nice rot. Eggshells and lettuce. Potato skins. The kind of stuff that you make you say Oh instead EEEEEUUU.
Colm O'Regan: I’m enjoying turning a waste-frown upside down

It’s time to talk rot. Not rancid rot. Not breaddy rot or chickeny rot. Nice rot. Eggshells and lettuce. Potato skins. The kind of stuff that you make you say Oh instead EEEEEUUU.

The stuff that turns into humus, the earthy wormy stuff. The stuff that if you fell on it in the forest you’d write a blog about how earth is an anti-depressant. Some of us pay money for that to be taken away in the brown bin. Some of us pay money for that to be taken away in the Evil Bin.

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