Like Christmas

Seriously. I was so excited to get these at the beginning of September. COMPOST BINS! Now I don't have to feel excessively guilty about the food waste - if only I could put other things in like cotton and bioplastics. I'm sure it will come in time, but for now its certainly a thrill to have industrial compost pickup!

My Messy Bedroom

So I know I've blogged about this before... but my room is a mess, and I have a cold today. Although its a gorgeous summer day out there, I'm inclined to stay inside in my horrible "inside only" clothes and clean. I'll let you know if it actually gets cleaner! Though I'm inclined to paint instead - but I have to move some stuff out of the way before I can do that. I'm not even going to put a picture here about it. I'll try to get a picture of it when its clean... And in the process declutter my life - I will be certain to recycle as much as I can!

The downfall

Well, my garbage-free life was a disaster. I am no good at it at all - I like chocolate WAY too much and I can't plan ahead enough to get chocolate only from Unpackaged... I surely did try to keep it up... the one thing I did do was create lots of really wonderful things from my Dumpster Diving forays. I am really good at getting cardboard now, and relatively fearless in obtaining scrap paper. On that note... I put up a couple of the sets of instructions up on Instructables - and within 8 hrs my little sewn bound notebook was a favourite! How exciting. Oh yeah, back to what I was talking about... Garbage-freeness. It didn't work. I tried. I have cut back my garbage exponentially and most importantly it has made me really think about what I buy and the packaging it comes in. People are starting to care more and more, hopefully we keep it up and it doesn't stay in the realm of the upper-middle class and disseminates to everyone.

Dumpster Diving Grossness

I've been pretty lucky with my dumpster diving in general... I've stayed away from most gross things... but today I didn't have the same luck. I brought home a really nice pristine box from a baby's toy. I was pumped - it was nice thin cardboard... just what I needed. Then I opened the box. At first I just saw all of the other packaging that usually comes with such a toy... but it smelled a bit funny, like a litter box... I was looking for the source of the smell and there it was in the corner... A diaper. It wasn't a totally gross diaper, just a wrapped up diaper. Makes you really think about recycling and all the sorting and all the regular garbage that goes in - and it makes me wonder how they sort it. I'll have to look into that some more...

My Room...

My room has become a garbage tip.  Now this isn't big news for anyone who really knows me - I am a messy child - but with all this reusing things have gotten out of control!  There is cardboard EVERYWHERE!  Wish me luck in using it all!

Yucky!

This loaf of bread is disgusting!!! I'm not even going to post the recipe because it is that bad, here's the link just so you know NOT to make this one. I will have to find some other way to use it, because I've been trying to eat it and I just can't its gross even slathered with butter an jam.

Garbage in another country

I was off seeing a bit of the world recently - and it was interesting to see the trash of another place. I spent a week in Romania with AL (who grew up there) and we wandered around the country looking at all the wonderful things. AL was concerned about the quality of the tap water - so we drank bottled water, and recycling is basically non-existent, oh did I feel bad. The city of Bucharest was quite clean, but I was told that they were cleaning up to put on a pretty show for the NATO summit which began the day we left. I'll post some more pics later, but I thought I would share these to begin with.