Trashy update
November 7, 2007
Here are the contents of my portable trashbag so far:
- plastic wrapper for organic Udon noodles
- Cardboard coffee sleeve (the woman at Think Coffee put it on my glass bottle before I had the chance to turn it down)
- Plastic egg carton
- Plastic wrapper for Trader Joe’s organic pepper jack cheese
- Tom’s of Maine toothpaste tube (does anybody know if you can recycle these?)
- Band-aid wrapper
- Four tea bag wrappers (from the batch of Kombucha I brewed Monday)
- ATM receipt dated 12/16/06 (??)
- Plastic yogurt container
- Muffin wrapper (these last two are from things I got at last night’s trash tour. I’m not sure if I need to be carrying them around since, technically, I rescued the items they packaged from the trash. But I am anyways.)
- Scrap from the top of a mailing envelope (now that I think of it, this could go in the recycling)
- Ziploc bag with 2 apple cores, clementine peel, and a pear core (for the worms)
That’s it so far. As you can tell, it’s mostly plastic packaging and therefore pretty light.
- Adam
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Shane Crary-Ross | November 8, 2007 at 12:32 am
If I were you, I’d let the plastic yogurt container & muffin wrapper slide… Today the kids I babysit gave me their croissant wrappers, and I put them in the trash. Then again, I am not exactly a model footpring forwarder: I also forgot that I was only supposed to eat local/organic/whatever food and ate some amazing channa from Lahore, this Pakistani hole-in-the-wall on Crosby Street. Mmmm…
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kit | November 12, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I hold on to my egg containers and give them to the people that sell eggs at the farmer’s market. Just check to make sure they will re-use them!