We're down to one bag of garbage a week! Fanfare of trumpets! We met our short-term goal for waste reduction.
How did we do it?
What is our secret?
No secret at all.
As we suspected, over fifty percent of our garbage is compostable material. We got ourselves a little counter top compost station, put a compostable liner inside, and started filling it up instead of the trash can. The most glamorous (and yes, kind of too-bad and inconvenient, but only a little bit) part is that we can't recycle it here at our condo in Union City.
Why is that glamorous?
We take it to a covert location. I can't reveal exactly where we take it, but it is helping to keep methane-releasing refuse out of the landfill, so I feel good about the choice. It's more of a good Samaritan choice than an Earth First type of choice, and with any luck, is only a stopgap measure until Union City decides to let us boldly go where no condo complex has gone before.
