What do you two seem to generate the most? Is it food related garbage or is it coming from other things?
What do you two seem to generate the most? Is it food related garbage or is it coming from other things?
I’ve said before: “The best place to lose weight is not the gym, but at the grocery store”. By not buying snacks and high calorie foods it’s a lot easier to reduce your calorie intake.
On the exact same front, buy less things with packaging. Bulk items, reusable containers, simply buying less crap. These little things all add up. Generally living a more simple lifestyle.
Buy fruit and veggies that are not pre-packaged. Put them in reusable bags or bring old paper bags to the store. Also avoid thing in small packaging and buy larger quantities instead. For example buy a piece of parmesan of 200g instead of 4 bags of 50g grated.
Most of my household waste gets recycled. I have three bins in my kitchen. One for metal, plastic and glass. One for paper and cardboard. The last one is for garbage. 99% of my waste is recycled so there is no cost associated with that. Edit: I also have an organic waste container. We have green bins in my city.
Same. We have trash, recycling, and compost bins. Most of our stuff goes into compost or recycle.
We also have bottle deposits for drinks. I save the aluminum and plastic to return. I don't like dealing with glass so we rarely buy them. I leave the occasional glass ones near a public trashcan and others take them.
I echo the sentiment other people have said about shopping for fresh produce which usually comes with less packaging.
I would also highly recommend composting as your food waste can just go straight into making compost instead of the bin. You can compost in all different ways, even with a caddy in your kitchen.
For the bathroom I've found using a safety razor (see post in zero waste group below) and switching to bar soap over the pump hand washes has helped a lot.
We also have a community over at zero waste that we are trying to get going, so subbing there would be great! https://kbin.social/m/zerowaste
Nice! Thanks for sharing your tips and your community. I'm not home, but as soon as I get home I'll add your ZeroWaste community to our sidebar - it fits the context and I believe communities need to try and boost their discoverability. Cheers!
Get a reusable bag for the grocery store. Removing the plastic or paper bags is a huge space saver. We also reorganized our fridge to make our vegetable upfront so we have been using them more. This reduces food waste and now we use them in more of our cooking. Especially since we have been shopping less and getting only what's needed for the next few days
Buy less useless shit. Less food deliveries, less "prepared" foods, less "made of the finest chinesium and thaitanium" products. Spend the extra buck for something that you'll get more than one use out of. Adopt out the cats if you really want to reduce the amount of garbage. They're a primary source of all that trash - food packaging, cleaning up their shit, all their fur...
Then of course there's the obvious "sort your shit - recycle what you can, compost what you can".
It's a shame that he torpedo'd himself writing that, because at least the first three sentences of his comment were useful. Packaged prepared foods and cheap non-durable junk are probably the biggest categories of household waste other than uneaten food.
I get it, my cats are my biggest source of garbage/waste in my own household, and I wouldn't give 'em up for anything. But when facing a problem, sometimes you have to weigh options you'd rather not consider.
Yeah. That's a bold move, Cotton.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Being mindful of how something is packaged.
Eat more fresh produce cause the packaging is limited or non existent.
Streamline your diet into only what you need, cut the snacks and stuff, just pick one thing per food run to snack
Start composting if able
I've got one trash bag a week. And a 5 gal bucket of recycling. I have 2 less cats than you but overall the same set up.
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