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Today's Haul:
- 2 lollipop sticks - worms
- 2 lollipop covers - garbage
- 1 tea bag - worms
- 1 tea bag cover - worms
- 1 beer bottle - recycle
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Day 242 - Saturday 8/30/08
Friday, August 29, 2008
Day 241 - Friday 8/29/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 piece clean used tin foil - garbage
- 1 plastic bag - recycle
- 1 glass soy sauce bottle w/top - recycle
- 2 metal ends from frozen juice - recycle
- 1 cardboard middle from frozen juice - garbage
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Kimberley Clark Uses Wall*E to Sell Kleenex
From the Greenpeace site a little bit of irony. Kimberley Clarke is using Wall*E a character from the Pixar movie about conservation to sell Kleenex, a product that uses virgin trees and nothing recycled. Of course, the irony is somewhat short lived when you realize that Pixar/Disney must have given their permission to KC to use the Wall*E image in the first place. Ahhh the mighty dollar.
Day 240 - Thursday 8/28/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 cardboard pizza box - recycle
- 1 cardboard naan box - recycle
- 1 plastic gnocci bag - recycle
- 1 beer bottle w/top - recycle
- 1 plastic cranberry bag - recycle
- 1 plastic banana chips bag - recycle
- 1 used q-tip - worms
LA adds on more (mini) bin
In an effort to stop the 25% of table scraps that end up in Los Angeles area landfills, LA residents are getting these cool little green bins to keep in their kitchens. Food scraps and leftovers go in the mini bin and then out to the big green bin making it easier, and hopefully more doable. Way to go LA!
Dave
KNBC 4 News Piece
This goes back about a month but I'm just now getting caught up. A pretty good little piece with the exception that my hair looks like I just woke up. Such is life.
Dave
Travelling
As some may have noticed I just back posted about two weeks of garbage after being silent for a bit. I was on vacation back east with my family and didn't have a ton of internet access (very frustrating) but did manage to save everything i could and bring it back with me. A lot of stuff that I'll hopefully be able to post on in the next few days, but here now are a few tidbits I can think of.More to come on recycling back east and the Museum of Trash!
Yet Another Plastic Bag Solution - Furoshiki!!!!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Day 239 - Wednesday 8/27/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 coffee bean bag - garbage
- 1 lemonade tetrapak box - recycle
- 1 3 segment drug package - garbage
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Day 238 - Tuesday 8/26/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 coffee filter and coffee grounds - worms
- 1 breakfast bar wrapper - worms
- 2 paper napikins - worms
- 11 ozs paper from mail - recycle/worms
- 4 local newspapers - worms/recycle
- 2 rubber bands from local newspapers - repurpose
- 5 glossy door flyers - garbage
Monday, August 25, 2008
Day 237 - Monday 8/25/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 plastic gnocchi bag - recycle
- 2 plastic drinking cups PP5 - recycle
- 2 used q-tips - worms
- 1 cloth type napkin from restaurant - worms
Morsbags - Sociable. Guerilla. Bagging
Check this out. Sheila from the Isle of Wight England who read a couple of my Care2 articles sent me some information on a project called Morsbags. The basic idea is that local groups/individuals get together into groups called pods and make re-usable bags from whatever material they happen to have around. The bags are then given to local folks who in turn are asked not to use any more plastic bags.
How cool is that?
The website is set up really easily and you can download pdfs to help you get started on making bags right away. The general idea is to get together with a group of friends, make as many bags as you feel like and then give them away to be used. They suggest going to a shopping center and passing them out en masse to make a better statement but also recognize that this isn't for everyone. Sheila also includes a piece of paper in each bag explaining what they are and how to make them. The thing i really love about the site is that they are just trying to get people to change their attitudes and giving them a very concrete way to do it.
I'm hoping to do an interview with the founder and will post that when it happens.
By the way, the website for what Sheila's town has been doing is here.
In the meantime, check out the site and get bag making!
Dave
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Day 236 - Sunday 8/24/08
Today's Haul:
- 3 biscotti wrappers - garbage
- 3 plane tickets - worms
- 3 paper reservations - worms
- 1 plane ticket holder - garbage (stickers on it)
- 6 baggage tags - garbage
- 3 paper towels - worms
- 2 plastic toy wrappers - garbage
- 1 plastic straw - recycle
- 1 paper straw wrapper - worms
- 3 pieces scrap paper - worms
- 4 pieces chewed gum in wrappers
NOTE: Plane tickets and all plane related materials were for the entire trip which we have returned from.
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