We trashed one bag this week. (Yellow.) It's quite small compared to the neighbors' bags, but I wish it was much smaller. There are plenty of things in there that I don't know what to do with: envelop windows, weird inseparable packages made from too many materials, and some god knows what. I'm sure we could have recycled at least half of it somehow. Lazy.
A few good things though:
- Fixed a lot of clothes. Not that I would have thrown them away anyway, but now they can at least be used again and not just lie in a pile. Less buying new clothes if your old ones work.
- Made sure to bring your own water in a bottle. If you fill bottles and freeze them, they serve as cooling for your other picnic food + you can drink it as it melts.
- Saved two stolen-when-drunk bananas and some forgotten (but nice quality) chocolate from death by letting them meet each other in a lovely cake along with some eggs. Very low GI. Bananas were browning, chocolate had gotten whitish - typically food you would just throw away.
- Overall trying to not waste food but eat it before it goes bad. (And without just solving it by eating a lot of extra semi-bad food.)
- Carried lunch sandwiches back without extra bag, said no to other carrier bags.
- Tried to find unpacked shampoo. Finally found a dry powder shampoo that you mix with water before usage. It came in a paper box. Was kind of excited until I found the plastic tube inside. Damn! Still excited to try it though. Weird!
-Writing on both sides of paper, just like the World Wildlife Foundation taught us to do in the 80's.
By Pernilla
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