Betty-
On September 12th, 2018 your weekly weigh-in said you had zero bags of garbage. How can a family of six have zero bags of garbage?
-Sara
Thank you for your question Sara! A family of six can have zero bags of trash in a week. Our current goal is to have one bag or less of garbage per week. I follow Bea Johnson’s five R’s. Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot, in that order. We refuse many products that have wasteful packaging and we have reduced the products that we do buy. I admit I’m not great at reusing because I don’t buy many things that can be reused/repurposed/upcycled, we recycle everything we can and I’ll even toss plastic in the recycle bin if I’m not sure if it is recyclable since the worst that will happen is it will get picked out at the recycling plant. We compost everything that we possibly can. When you follow the five R’s it is easy to greatly reduce how much garbage your family makes. We still are eliminating things we use and making better choices so we expect our weekly weigh-ins to continue to drop. Before we started our journey we averaged two to three bags of garbage per week, so we are making a lot of progress. Thanks again!
-Betty
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*Update 10/24/18
A reader pointed out to me that you shouldn't put things in the recycling that can't be recycled. That's true. I toss only plastic into the recycling bin that I'm not sure can be recycled because our recycling accepts all plastic. You should check with your service to see what is and what is not accepted.
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