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Today's Haul:
- 1 automatic dishwasher detergent box - recyle
- 1 metal pour spout from auto dishwasher detergent box - garbage
- 1 can hearts of palm - recycle
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Day 305 - Saturday 11/1/08
Friday, October 31, 2008
Day 304 - Friday 10/31/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 sticker from fishmonger - garbage
- 1 jury duty summons - worms
- 1 plastic pretzels bag - worms
- 1 bus pass - worms
- 1 plastic wrap from videocassette - recycle
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Day 303 - Thursday 10/30/08
Today's Haul:
- 2 paper plates - worms
- 1 local advertisement "paper" - recycle
- 1 plastic burritos bag - recycle
- 1 candy bar wrapper - garbage
- 1 emergenc wrapper - garbage
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Day 302 - Wednesday 10/29/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 local newspaper - recycle
- 1 string from local newspaper - worms
- 4 broken staples - garbage
- 1 chips bag - recycle
A question for the carnivores
A blog reader named Brandon emailed me (a while back and i'm just now responding) about what to do with meat scraps. They can't be worm composted and he didn't know what else to do. i mentioned thinking ahead (don't cook more than you'll eat) and feeding scraps to the dog as well as an outside public composter if one existed.
That said, as a veg, I'm afraid I don't deal with this subject too much. Without getting into a huge discussion of the pros and cons of eating meat (or maybe that is what we should be doing) anyone have any illuminations?
Dave
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Day 301 - Tuesday 10/28/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 frozen orange juice container - garbage
- 2 frozen orange juice container metal sides - recycle
- 1 cardbaord pizza box - recycle
- 1 plastic wrap from pizza - recycle
Gardenerd - How Could i Not Post This?
A friend just sent me a note about this cool website, Gardenerd which really rocks. For starters, it has nerd in the title, so how bad can it be right? But beyond that, it's really pretty cool with a ton of info. It claims to be the ultimate resource for garden nerds, but has no information on where my Han Solo figure I lost back there last year are. That said, it's really great and I highly recommend checking it out and passing it around.
Garden Nerds of the World UNITE!
Dave
Monday, October 27, 2008
Day 300 and an outdoor composter!! woohooo!!!
Wow, day 300. Whodathunk it. Not my neighbors that's for sure. And to celebrate I decided to finally put together an outdoor compost bin. Nothing special really, it's actually just an old planter box half filled with clean dirt and castings/worms left over from harvesting. I'll fill ya in in a day or so on why i needed this, but for now, just another piece of the puzzle.
66 days to go!
Dave
Day 300 - Monday 10/27/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 plastic bag frozen corn - recycle
- 1 plastic tofu dog wrapper w/stickers - garbage
- 3 paper plates - worms
- 6 plastic sampler cups w/tops - recycle
- 2 plate liners - worms
- 2 plastic drinking straws - garbage
- 2 plastic drinking straw paper covers - worms
- 2 glass juice bottles w/tops - recycle
- 2 Clif Bar Wrappers
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Why Recycle At Home And Not When You Are Out
I took my daughters to the park today as it was a nice day out and they had a bit of energy that needed sapping. AS they ran around on the play area I sat and watched people going by, something I must admit I enjoy doing form time to time. Now i don't know if it was my heightened awareness due to this project, or a jackpot time to be there, but i was fairly shocked at what I noticed.
All around me people were throwing plastic water bottles and soda bottles into the garbage. I'm not naive, I recognize that this happens all the time pretty much everywhere, but what shocked me was who was doing it. I'm the first to say that you can't judge people by how they look but when the guy with the "Save the Rainforest" and the lady with the "Recycle" shirt (I kid you not and they were not together) are throwing plastic in the trash, it makes you think.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these two, among others (including a few people i know personally) would have recycled their bottles had there been a bin or had they been at home where a bin is accessible. And yet, they didn't seem to think twice about throwing their bottles away. Why?
I'm afraid the answer is the same that lies at the the heart of most of the problems at hand, simple convenience. It's inconvenient to have to bring the bottle with them and then dispose of it, and much more convenient to chuck it in the garbage where they are. I can see that as plain as anyone else can. I guess what gets me is that no one forced them to bring a plastic water bottle to begin with, it was their choice. And yet, they don't feel a responsibility to deal with their choices once the way to deal with them becomes an inconvenience.
The bottom line of all this is this. We all are hopefully trying to do our best by recycling and using less in the first place, but that should extend beyond our immediate homestead and out into our lives as a whole.
Why recycle at home but not do so on a trip? Is it less important?
Why refuse to bring styrofoam into your house and then use it at the office? Is it less damaging to the environment?
And why hang at the park with your kids and chuck a plastic water bottle that you would have most likely recycled were you at home?
It just doesn't make sense.
OK, end of tirade (actually it sounds angrier than i am, when it should be more confused than angry).
And for those of you wondering, yes, I grabbed a bunch of them out of the barrel, brought them home, and put them in the blue bin (not mine afterall).
Dave
Day 299 - Sunday 10/26/08
Today's Haul:
- 18 broken staples - garbage
- 1 plastic pretzel bag - recycle
- 14 ozs misc paper from mail - recycle/worms
- 1 local newspaper - recycle/worms
- 1 local coupon flyer - recycle
- 1 plastic bag form coupon flyers - recycle
Day 298 - Saturday 10/25/08
Today's Haul:
- 6 candy wrappers - garbage
- 2 small chips bags - garbage
- 1 plastic ups bag w/stickers - garbage
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