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Many restaurants in North American cities have reminders that these should be thrown in the trash.

Then there's a co-worker's situation in his townhouse / condo development: some people, who are probably new immigrants don't know the rules of the road, have to be informed not to flush chicken carcasses down the toilet. Just put it in the green bin and it will be picked up with-in the week:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bin




To be honest, leaving a bin containing chicken carcasses outdoors for up to one week in 90'F heat isn't exactly a sensible thing to do, either. Those immigrants might have come from a place where the toilet doubles as the compost. So many things that we take for granted aren't obvious at all to people from other parts of the world.


90F = 32C.

I'm in Toronto, and we get that kind of heat somewhat regularly, and the green bins haven't been a problem. It's the reason why they're picked up every week (garbage and recycling alternates).




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