On Sunday, October 12, 2014 10:07:59 PM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > On Saturday, October 11, 2014 8:13:32 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
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> >> I just realized that we don't generate much. I don't use my garbage
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> >> disposal very much. We don't compost, so coffee grounds and food
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> >> trimmings go into the (covered) garbage can and yet, we generate only
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> >> one bag of waste per week... which turns into more like half a bag
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> >> when it's taken out of the trash can to go to the trash bin, so we
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> >> empty the trash baskets in the den, bedrooms and bathrooms in there
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> >> too. We didn't eat out at all last week and still didn't generate
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> >> enough garbage to make emptying the kitchen trash worthwhile.
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> > Depends on whether one of us has a cold or not. I took out a bale of used
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> > kleenex last week.
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> > We ditched the 13 gallon tall kitchen bags, because the kitchen garbage
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> > stank long before the bag filled. Now we switched to 8 gallon Glad bags
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> > (generics aren't tough enough), and change them midweek, whether full or
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> > not.
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> > We did compost our vegetable waste for years, but then lost interest.
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> >> Is reducing your
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> >> carbon footprint a normal part of getting "older"?
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> > We don't cook much out of boxes, jars, and cans any more. Not so many
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> > catalogs come; we're down to three magazines and one newspaper -- which
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> > is itself shrinking.
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> I really wish I could cut down on the junk snail mail. Besides the cans,
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> that really is the bulk of my recycling. Every day I go through the mail
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> and it almost all goes into the bin straight away. I don't even need the
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> store ads except for occasional coupons. The amount of waste generated by
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> junk mail is insane. I get a packet of coupons each week and I will never
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> use a one of them. There are occasionally restaurant or pizza delivery
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> coupons but most are for things like roofing and windows. Ads for stores
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> where I would never shop and catalogs that will never be opened. Now that I
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> have the Internet, I have no need for any of these things. I have tried
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> various measures to stop the junk mail but none of them worked.
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> I have noticed that some of the apartment complexes around here are now
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> putting recycle bin right by the mailboxes. So apparently I am not the only
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> one with this problem. And they actually encouraging companies to send out
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> more catalogs to keep the post office busy.

VORTEX, VORTEX....