The part about the city counting your food scraps is wild. A friend of mine lives out near Seattle and she said they started weighing her trash bin, like literally checking the weight to see if she was tossing out too much food. She told me she felt like a criminal for throwing away a moldy loaf of bread. Now she keeps a little bucket in the freezer with old veggie peels. Never thought I'd hear someone talk about their compost like a pet.