If anything, this past week I learned that cataloging your waste is exausting. I decided on day 1 that compostables were going to be out of scope. Writing down each carrot end and banana peel was too much work what with the mass quantities of package-free veggies we consume.
I did, however, succeed in writing down almost all the recycling and garbage that Grant and I generated from Sunday to Sat. I realized on day 3 that I was neglecting receipts, but I did do my best.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that we only drink beer, eat ice cream, and ski. It is a bit skewed as we were on vacation. Continue reading
We try to take our reusable containers with us when we go out to eat.
A bit of a sad story today. Grant and I were having lunch at a homestyle restaurant – plain white coffee mugs, glass bottles of ketchup, silver-topped salt and pepper shakers, and rib-sticking mac and cheese.
There has been lots of snow in Vancouver. Lots of snow. And our household fell right off the back of the old consumer-free wagon and straight into it.
I’ve been pondering milk containers lately.
ney spent, but then, when it comes down to it, we all go and blow wads of cash on an abundance of gifts, mainly material goods. Why is there such a disconnect between what people say they believe and what they do?
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