This morning I filled yet another 13-gallon kitchen trash bag with household waste and took it to the dumpster. Yesterday I took two out.
Packaging. My Pet Peeve. Can’t stand to live with it, can’t live without it. Every time I throw inorganic waste in the trash I feel guilty. But what are you going to do? My apartment complex here in Quincy, CA, does have a “recyclables” dumpster, but it’s just a small mini-dumpster, and I admit I don’t like taking the time to separate as I go. More guilt.
I do flatten all my corrugated cardboard boxes and put them in the recyclables bin. But my everyday paper and plastic from all the grocery and sundries packaging just goes in the big dumpster. Guilty, guilty, guilty. In my feeble defense I will stipulate that separating my recyclables would require keeping yet another receptacle in my kitchen, which I really don’t have the space for.
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Packaging, packaging, packaging. If I’m to eat, I’m to create waste.
Waste Management picks up our garbage. From what I have just learned from them my garbage just ends up in a landfill. Now I’m really feeling guilty. The time has come for me to change my ways. I must start separating my recyclables. Really, it’s easy enough. Really, I do have the space in my kitchen for another receptacle.
We used to have a facility here where you could get paid for recycling aluminum. Now we have to drive twenty miles to the nearest such facility.
I’d love to hear what you do with your household waste. Do you separate your recyclables? Do you have “single-stream” waste management in your area? Do you have any ideas on how household waste, especially packaging, could be reduced?
Totally non-sequitur, yesterday afternoon was clear, warm, and very sunny so I bicycled over to the pond hoping for a sighting of some dazzling, never-before-photographed (for me) bird. No such luck, but a couple other flyers were willing to momentarily pause for posterity:
This bullfrog held still also:
Just pretty:
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