I have always prided myself on being a frugal and thoughtful consumer, concerned about the ecological and ethical impacts of the products I buy. I pay that extra $10 a month to support green energy, use CFLs where I can, have low flow shower heads, bricks in the toilet tanks, buy earth and animal friendly cleaning products or make my own, wear my clothes until they're dead, line dry most often, use my dish and pasta water to water landscaping, shower every other day, have no ac, rarely use my gas in wall heater, bike or take public transport almost all of the time, drink tap water, buy local and organic foods to supplement those I grow in my garden, have reusable shopping bags, a reusable coffee cup, a reusable water bottle, save lidded plastic food packaging to store left overs of future meals and compost 100% of my food scraps.

....so what's with all this waste?

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Day 16: Waste Tally

Transportation
  • walk to train to carpool with two people
  • carpool with two people to train to home

Solid Waste

Reuse

Recycle

  • junk mail (grrr!--anyone know how to stop recieving those store flyers?)

Compost

  • 1 tea bag wrapper
  • 1 tea bag

Trash

  • average amount of TP

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