Comments on: Day 185: Happy Waste-Free New Years http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/ Our Consumer Free, Waste Free Year Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rhy http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-251 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:03:43 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-251 It’s true with you and grant gone, I’ve also realized how much recycling/trash I’ve been generating on my own! see ya on saturday drive safe.

]]> By: Almost Mrs Average http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-241 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:01:37 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-241 Hi Jen – just wanted to say thanks for contributing this post to this month’s Carnival of Trash. Just to let you know it’s now published over on my blog. You might be interested in next month’s topic as well. :-D

]]> By: Jen CleanBin http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-231 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:09:55 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-231 Thanks for the support.
Mrs. Green, you are right, we sometimes forget that REDUCE comes first.
We have also been trying to eat fruit more seasonally Mrs. Almost Average. It’s hard to stay away from the strawberries, but it is worth it wait until the spring farmers market where they come in a paper container. I’m impressed that you have reduced your recycling by so much. We still buy a lot of things in cans and boxes, so it’ll be interesting to see how we do.
Good luck next month Di. It is definitely a challenge worth taking. We just needed someone to give us the nudge to do it!

]]> By: Di Hickman http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-230 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:09:48 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-230 Ooooh definitely something I can do at some point, right now I have too much going on as I try and get back into the swing of things, but pencilling this into next month for sure!

]]> By: Almost Mrs Average http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-229 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:09:20 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-229 Happy New Year Jen and good luck with reducing your recycling as well as your non-recyclable stuff. Mrs G is right about it all happening in a couple of stages and the impact that has on the amount of recyclates you end up with.

Since I started the Rubbish Diet almost a year ago there has also been a gradual reduction in our main recycling bin, which takes mixed plastics, card, paper, aluminium and steel cans. It’s now about 50%-60% full compared to a year ago when it was regularly overflowing and needed to squashed down. I think it’s been helped by not just focusing on reducing packaged stuff but reducing the amount of things that we used to buy, e.g. I would always buy strawberries through the Winter, but am now happy to wait until the summer when they are in season again. That means there are much few plastic punnets ending up in our recycling bin. I also used to buy loads of grapes packaged in punnets all through the year. Now, we eat more apples instead, which are bought loose from the market.

Can’t wait to see how you get on. :-D

]]> By: Mrs Green http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/01/01/day-185-happy-waste-free-new-years/#comment-228 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:34:30 +0000 http://cleanbin.wordpress.com/?p=824#comment-228 This is a great challenge; we did it during our zero waste week. I feel that a zero waste lifestyle has two parts. The first is to keep stuff out of the landfill by recycling more, reusing and composting, but then there comes a time when you need to step it up, and that includes looking at where you can REDUCE your recycling too.

Good luck with this; I think you will learn a lot and I can’t wait to see your results.

Happy new year!

Mrs G x

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