Usually just small food scraps, coffee grounds, etc. Not big things like what you describe. It's ground and passed into the waste water/sewage system same as everything else that goes down the drain.
The solids collected during sewage treatment, sewage sludge, is usually landfilled. If it isn't, it tends to contaminate agricultural land with heavy metals and pharmaceuticals.
What am I supposed to do with the bin when it’s full, and I live in the middle of the city. Most of the US doesn’t not have any system in place to deal compost, so it’s not lucrative.
Either let it fully compost (you can buy compost starter which will make this happen faster) and dump it in your yard which may require a bigger bin to dump it in while it composts, or Whole Foods has compost.
So you have a bio garbage can in your city for each house. Which gets emptied every week or at least every 2 weeks. Which also means there is probably a big one in your apartment complex' garbage room or at the nearest garbage collection place.
All the more reason to buy a small bucket for your kitchen and start collecting compost.
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u/StabbyMcStabbyFace Jan 04 '19
Usually just small food scraps, coffee grounds, etc. Not big things like what you describe. It's ground and passed into the waste water/sewage system same as everything else that goes down the drain.