Are you familiar with how modern agriculture works?

The fertilizers that were sprayed across the ground to grow those crops

The gasoline burned to fuel the sprayers.

The gasoline burned to fuel machines planting the grain.

The gasoline burned to fuel machines harvesting the grain.

The gasoline burned to fuel machines transporting the grain to the factory.

The coal burned to power the factory.

The gasoline burned to ship the buns to the store.

The gasoline burned to drive to the store to buy the buns.

The water used to grow the crops.

The list goes on, and on, and on, and on. It's like you think buns magically appear on shelves and it took no energy or resources to get them there.

Going to the store, buying buns, and composting them is a complete and utter waste of every resource that went into putting them in that compost bin.

What other solutions are there?

Did you read the email? I would have gladly taken a bag home, and I'm very confident enough others at the event would have also to have completely emptied that tote.

But that's too difficult I guess.