Well my lame attempt at a joke (Austrian TÜV standards are inherently inferior to German TÜV ones - and don't get me started on the Swiss!) has started a bit of a discussion. I like it!
We've been doing curbside composting for a long time here. Originally it was just yard waste, but they added food waste a number of years ago. We also have a plastic compost bin that we keep under the kitchen sink, similar to the one Dick references above. I carry the whole thing out to the compost container and then drop the bag in too. Sometimes liquid will have seeped through the bag, so this prevents drips and bags breaking.
They changed our waste pickup schedule when they introduced food waste composting. Previously they had picked up trash, recyclables and compost every week. After the change they went to every other week for trash pickup, but kept compost and recycling weekly. We refer to trash weeks as "garbage garbage day." "Is tomorrow garbage garbage day?" "No, just garbage day."
We have two different composting streams: residential and business. Residential compost (food and yard debris) is made into compost. Business compost is supposed to be food only, and it's usually made into gas (methane burned for energy or converted into LNG for fleet vehicles) and fertilizer. I suppose some could argue that converting it to gas isn't very green, but the decomposition of those materials in the landfill would produce methane anyway. This way it's at least captured and put to use.
