It becomes very apparent how much trash we generate from all our purchases of food and other products when you have to collect it in your home and carry it with you until you find a dumpster in which to unload it. We have been pretty good about throwing out our trash daily, but our recent trip to Denver provided us the opportunity to re-provision and thus to shop.
Our first stop was Costco which entailed stocking up on Splenda, granola bars, and medicines. We picked up soda pop from the grocery store and lots of cereal. Each of these items came in cardboard packaging that required collapse before throwing away. The worst offenders of excess packaging are the medicine companies. The packages from Costco were twice as big as the medicine bottles themselves. We elected to remove as much cardboard outer packaging as possible and combine our lot into plastic bags. I’m not sure this is so much better for the environment, but it certainly fit more easily in our storage bins.
I am amazed by how much trash we can collect even in one day. Does anyone have suggestions on how to reduce it? I’m thinking of simply purchasing fresh produce from now on and then I’ll just be stuck with the plastic bags. Then again, that would involve me cooking every day. I don’t think that is realistic.
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