Well it's been 4 weeks of watching what I throw away - literaly. I look IN my kitchen garbage bag everytime I throw something in it. I live alone so it is pretty easy to be aware of what gets thrown away in my home.
Here's what I threw away the first week.
Broken rubberband
Emergency Drink packet (daily)
Vitamin pack (daily)
Kleenex tissues
Plastic bag form alminds
Plastic bag from chips
Candy wrapper
Gum wrapper
Plastic Seed package for sprouter
Beer bottle cap
Plastic wrapper from a magazine I get in the mail
Plastic straw from a Starbucks iced coffee (I recyled the rest)
There was barely any food waste, no vaccuum dirt, coffee grounds, etc. as I compost.
My bag size each week has been ONE plastic grocery bag.
What amazed me was the amount of packaging I had to throw away as there is no way to reycle them. I consider my self an aware person about what I bring home and yet I can see I have far to go.
Could I ever live totally package-free? Could You?
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