My favorite night of the week is garbage night. I get to touch all of our refuse. Organize it, fall over it, wrestle into receptacles repeatedly as it attempts multiple escapes. Deal with the dog’s irrational terror and curiosity about the commotion. It’s great.
Additionally, I ruminate about the stupidity of all of it. All packaging should be biodegrade or be reusable. We subsidize the corn industry to the point of having a surplus that we turn into syrup and jam into all sorts of food products unnecessarily. Why couldn’t we turn that into packaging that composts instead?
Instead we have this:
We need more plastic to send our plastic to get turned into other plastic
We try our best to remember to bring our reusable shopping bags when we go to stores. We still end up with piles of these petrol byproduct bags, but that’s good? Shamefully, yes. Because the BLUE ones and the CLEAR ones can be used to send other plastic products to the city. Apparently, the garbage men aren’t bright enough to tell when a bag has beer bottles and yogurt containers and not other waste by the sound of it.
Sometimes, though, we don’t have enough blue or clear ones. So that means, we have to purchase another petrol byproduct in order to send our petrol byproducts to get turned into other petrol byproducts (in the photo you will see in the clear bag on the left all the other bags that cannot get used for recycling getting prepped for their return to the product cycle).
Oxymoronic or just moronic?
Is this as good as we can do?
Tags: byproduct, corn, garbage, Green, packaging, recycling, stupid, waste
compost!
that is all.
yes, it has nothing to do with plastic.
but it has greatly lessened our ‘waste’.
we went from 2-3 bags or so a week down to 1 small kitchen bag for all the stuff that doesn’t fit for recycling or composting.
of course, here in btv we take our compost down to the intervale where a nice little company turns it (for profit) into soil.
Indeed. The composting helps. I see it has extracting every penny of what you spend on produce. Still doesn’t solve the issue of more plastic for plastic for more plastic. Plus half the produce comes in some sort of plastic as well or is brought home in plastic if you forgot your permabags.
ahh, yes, but we shop at a coop and have thin cotton or canvas bags for most of our produce. we rarely buy produce that is packaged.
we sometimes forget the permabags… but i’ve tried to keep a few in the car so if we are out and impulse shop we have something to use…
nothing is perfect – but way better than always getting the plastic. we also have the option of getting paper – which to me seems like a better choice. they are reusable as well… for various things.