Category: trash
Green Bin Challenge Update: February
Green Bin Challenge Update: February - By - Leigh Williams February 28, 2019 If you read my last entry, you will know that I have decided to take a One Green Bin Challenge for 2019, and in so doing, it is already clear to me some of the [...]
In Search Of A Zero Waste Tea
Back in March 2018, we conducted a survey through our Toward Zero Waste Facebook Groups regarding tea packaging. One of our members had begun to find tea packaging sized plastic in her finished compost and realized that some her tea packaging waste was clearly not zero waste! Remains of composted tea envelopes (bottom [...]
My 2019 Green Bin Challenge
My 2019 Green Bin Challenge - By - Leigh Williams January 16, 2019 For 2019, I have decided to challenge myself! Actually, maybe it’s not so much a challenge, as an assessment. For the last 3 years, I have been chipping away at how much garbage my family [...]
Changing Habits: Skipping Straws And Embarrassing My Kids
By: Patty Cervenka of Greenish Neighbor Originally published on Greenish Neighbor My family loves to eat out. There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that I would be very content if I never again had to cook another meal in my kitchen. Selecting meals for my [...]
China Says “No More!”
By: Dee Gilmore You might have heard that China doesn't want to be the "world's garbage dump" anymore. I can't blame them. According to a New York Times article China processed 7.3 million tons of the world's paper, plastic and metal last year. China's recent refusal to continue to accept the world's [...]
