Trash Talk
Let's talk trash.
A few months ago, our family of five filled roughly three 13-gallon trash bags a week. Now we are down to one.
One that is about eighty pounds and mostly filled with disposable diapers, and you can snark at me for that. Course, we still have a ways to go to get down to four pounds of trash (!) a week.
But I digress.
I'm not sure how we reduced our trash, honestly. Moving to a new place has helped. The recycling in our city is more comprehensive, and the produce I buy at the store is rarely packaged in plastic.
So it must be the little things that add up.
One example? Egg cartons. Where we lived before, most eggs were sold in Styrofoam cartons, and in order to recycle those you had to construct your own Styro-trans-foam-er within the confines of your own backyard.
There really is no such thing, by the way, in case you wanted to Google that or something.
But all I can buy now are cardboard cartons, which are easily tossed into the recycling bin each week.
Which got me to thinking about the little things--that when done across a town or a city really start to add up.
So talk to your produce managers. Ask questions at your stores. Examine your trash at home.
Don't be afraid to "talk trash." It all adds up.
A few months ago, our family of five filled roughly three 13-gallon trash bags a week. Now we are down to one.
One that is about eighty pounds and mostly filled with disposable diapers, and you can snark at me for that. Course, we still have a ways to go to get down to four pounds of trash (!) a week.
But I digress.
I'm not sure how we reduced our trash, honestly. Moving to a new place has helped. The recycling in our city is more comprehensive, and the produce I buy at the store is rarely packaged in plastic.
So it must be the little things that add up.
One example? Egg cartons. Where we lived before, most eggs were sold in Styrofoam cartons, and in order to recycle those you had to construct your own Styro-trans-foam-er within the confines of your own backyard.
There really is no such thing, by the way, in case you wanted to Google that or something.
But all I can buy now are cardboard cartons, which are easily tossed into the recycling bin each week.
Which got me to thinking about the little things--that when done across a town or a city really start to add up.
So talk to your produce managers. Ask questions at your stores. Examine your trash at home.
Don't be afraid to "talk trash." It all adds up.
1 comments:
Man, disposable diapers are one of the things I feel most guilty about. Seventh Generation seems to have the most enviro-friendly disposables, but they cost TWICE what I pay now. And I am just not going to make the investment to switch to cloth since my youngest is 2-1/2 and this close to potty training... someday!
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