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Take a look at what kind of opportunities there are for you to recycle around the house. Look for things you throw out and analyze how much of this you could be reducing. But also the responsibility for green living occurs when dining out. Commercial and retail standards are notoriously lax regarding “Green” practices.
Pay attention to dining in places like fast food restaurants and how much waste is created by your single purchase. Take the dining out experience off of auto-pilot. Look at the tray before you throw it out.
Do you need a bag? Does everything have to be wrapped in paper? How many napkins do you really need? How much food do you usually throw away? Does the dining room have a sort system for trash recycling?
The motto of re-duce, re-use, and re-cycle comes into play when taking a stringent look at household waste disposal. Bad habits formed in bygone eras of consumer waste and conspicusous consumption need to be retrained away.
Commercial food packaging can fool people into thinking that throwing away full volume trash is acceptable. The bulk of packaging from fast food alone fills a landfill with nonbiodegradeable garbage when it could have been handed across the serving counter unwrapped.
Think about the energy required to consolidate remove, transport and power compact your garbage for a year. If you could get that back in money spent, wouldn’t you want to? The motive of reducing garbage and the raison d’etre for waste conservation is too conserve unnecessary power usage.
Now look at that pile of refuse again. Imagine you had taken every box and container in the pile and flattened it. Imagine if every soda box, detergent box, and plastic bottle was erased in volume. Landfills might stop eroding into residential areas.
Now, multiply that savings by every house on your block. That’s probably one less truck a day that needs to soldier through traffic to get from your locale to the landfill. Think about the efficiency of the plastic and tin recycling centers and how the trucks collect those materials especially from there.
Working from the pile of trash, look at the amount of waste from food. Could this food have been properly stored in the refrigerator? Might it have gone into another recipe? Could animals have been fed with it? Are the leftover food scraps vegetables and fruit that might have gone into a compost bin?
If you don’t have a compost bin, then donate scraps to a green thinking neighbor who does.
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