So .. it's not that this place is claiming they compost their waste when they don't (or it's not really compostable), but that the cities these people live in don't have municipal compost.
I remember Seattle and Portland had municipal compost. You could get a green bin along with a blue bin for your house, and almost every restaurant and work place had "Trash, Recyclable and Compost" bins.
Now we know a lot of that recycling just gets shipped to landfills since China stopped taking/sorting our recycling, but the compost usually does get composted. It's usually industrial compost too, allowing for the composting of paper towels, pizza boxes, etc.
The solution seems to be that more cities need municipal/industrial scale composting. Another thing is that places like the salad place mentioned should have reusable containers instead of compostable containers, and you can bring the old ones in to be washed and save like 25 cents when you do. There are food courts in Portland who do this; offering higher quality containers and plastic wear that can be washed over and over again (or taken home and used/reused if you wish).
I remember Seattle and Portland had municipal compost. You could get a green bin along with a blue bin for your house, and almost every restaurant and work place had "Trash, Recyclable and Compost" bins.
Now we know a lot of that recycling just gets shipped to landfills since China stopped taking/sorting our recycling, but the compost usually does get composted. It's usually industrial compost too, allowing for the composting of paper towels, pizza boxes, etc.
The solution seems to be that more cities need municipal/industrial scale composting. Another thing is that places like the salad place mentioned should have reusable containers instead of compostable containers, and you can bring the old ones in to be washed and save like 25 cents when you do. There are food courts in Portland who do this; offering higher quality containers and plastic wear that can be washed over and over again (or taken home and used/reused if you wish).