Day 8: Waste Tally

I'm cleaning out the office!

I finally sucked it up and bought three folding tables at Home Depot. Not in love with this company by any means, but it's close and I knew they had the tables I wanted. Plus the store I go to is great because the employees will almost always give me a discount just for being nice and chatting it up with them. Thank you.

I put the tables in a "T" shape so, I now have a separate craft zone and computer zone. Sweet! Now where to put my robot zone?

I was going to do built in desks, but then I realized that if I ever move (which is likely cause this is a rental) I would have to leave all that wood behind, or even worse...tear it out...not too sustainable.

So here's the day's tally minus some of the office stuff. As with the shed yesterday, most of the stuff I'm getting rid of is recyclable. Look for pics of the completed office tomorrow!

Transportation:

• Drove to work (23 miles)
• Drove home (27 miles)
• Drove to Home Depot and back (6 miles)

Solid Waste:

Reuse

• 2 cereal boxes

Recycle

• 6' x 3' plastic bag
• 18" x 20" card stock label
• 2 inner plastic bags from cereal
• 1 small plastic deli wrapper

Compost

• 2 tea bags
• 2 paper tea bag wrappers

Trash

• 1 piece waxed deli paper

Day 4: Waste Tally

Transportation:

• walk to train to carpool with 2 others
• carpool with 2 others to train to walk home

Solid Waste:

Reuse

• 1 plastic 1/2 gallon milk jug

Check out my nifty little upcycle project! (right)

Recycle

• a few scraps of plastic milk jug
• 1 12oz glass bottle
• 1 metal bottle cap

Compost

• 2 teabags
• 1 paper tea bag wrapper
• 2 18" square pieces of deli paper?

Composting deli paper is an experiement. Not actually sure it will work. The deli paper I have is thin, has no obvious wax coating and easily takes on water, so I have high hopes. Stay tuned for test results!

Trash

• 1 waxed tea bag wrapper
• 2 paper towels (oops!)
  

Hmm? How to get rid of those? One solution I found today is the People Towel. Their slogan: CHANGE IS AT HAND says it all. Unfortunately, they don't list a shop that carries them locally, so I'll probably just grab a small towel from home and pack it around for now.