The Hubs Lactose waste Problems
The Bovine Lactation Problems
For the first few months of operation, our bookings coordinator was purchasing cow's milk— (milk is the brand name for one of the bovine lactation products that's causing us issues)— many of the groups that use the hub, have been socially conditioned to add cow`s lactation to their cups of tea and coffee. The honesty box we set up to cover costs in buying this product for this purpose, in the early days covered the cost of the so-called moo juice. However, as time has went on the honesty box is not working and our volunteers are too busy to monitor the situation of supply and usage. also waste of all kinds has become a significant issue.
The volunteers managing the hub include one who is dairy-free for compassionate reasons related to the industrial cruelty of agribusiness on animals. No other management volunteers care about animal welfare, but the other member of the team, who was previously purchasing this product, is well educated in that the dairy industry has massive, seriously bad environmental impacts. This dynamic means that those purchasing the lactose products typically do not monitor whether it has gone off. they stopped buying it due to complaints made to them! This has not stoped the complaints; however, the management team can now categorically state it has nothing to do with them
The management team no longer monitor what groups put or do not put items in the fridge likely to go off. Sometimes, some items in the fridges have been there for a considerable amount of time. Consequently, our stretched staff have had to monitor food waste, for hygiene and because we also now need to manage the waste efficiently. This task is already challenging when we have to rinse plastic bottles before space-savingly squashing bottles going into our blue bin for recycling. When dealing with litres of spoiled bovine lactation in those containers, it becomes even more problematic.
Initially, the lead caretaker of the recycling bins thought it would be no problem to add spoiled milk to our compost pile. However, our permaculture specialist informed him that this was considered toxic waste and should not be added to our organic plastic and toxin-free composting area, which is carefully regulated. Bovine lactation is not only filled with microplastics, but even when labelled as organic, it may come from herds that are injected with chemicals. The carbon footprint of this product is massive, resulting in detrimental impacts on biodiversity loss, climate change, and river toxicity from animal manure runoff.
Our recycling advocate now faced the next dilemma: how does he empty the bottles to get them into the recycling bin? According to Scottish Water, we should absolutely not pour milk down the sink, as the water board don't want these toxins entering their waste runoff pipes, where they can solidify and block the system. Or clog up your pipes, which will become odorous, damage pH control, encourage vermin, it also de`oxygenises the water, making it harmful to aquatic life
Our staff want everyone to be mindful that they do not want to ban people from drinking milk or any form of mammalian lactation. They encourage mothers to breastfeed on the premises. Our well-being lead humorously noted that anyone who says "don’t cry over spilt milk" has likely never expressed breast milk to feed a baby. While we support breastfeeding, at present we don't want to ban lactose. However, we may need to implement into our let policy: if your group brings lactose products such as milk, cheese cake, etc, please take any leftovers away with you, as we cannot manage the waste that is currently occurring at the hub. The waste situation has escalated beyond the management team's control. We are in talks with the council's waste department for help on these issue`s.
Please be mindfull that even requesting to pay for an extra uplift from the council is a further burden on our stretched, unpaid volunteers who currently put the bins out and monitor the recycling
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