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?

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Day 9: Waste Tally

Transportation:
  • drive to train to carpool with one person
  • carpool with one person to train to walk home
Solid Waste:

Reuse
  • plastic wrap off cookies
  • one sided printouts to notebooks
Recycle
  • 1 12 oz glass bottle
  • 1 metal bottle cap
  • lots of paper from the office
Compost
  • 2 tea bags
  • 2 paper tea bag wrappers
Trash
  • assorted wire scraps, tape, dirt from office cleanup

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