Just an Ordinary Person Trying To Reduce Trash

Have you read some of the blogs on how to live a life in today’s society and produce no trash? They’re writing about a style of life that I don’t have or even long to have. Three blogs that I looked at were: mindbodygreen.com, zerowastehome.com and trashisfortossers.com. As I read about the travels of the lady who wrote the zero waste blog, I wondered how she eats as she travels long distance to discuss her style of life. Airline food comes in containers and I know of no restaurant that doesn’t make trash; does she consider this their trash rather than her garbage? She does say “home”. Perhaps garbage created while elsewhere isn’t a concern. And, do the other bloggers that make zero trash stay at home rather than eating out in order to not make trash? These aren’t questions meant to criticize the person who strives to put next to nothing in our city dumps, they’re my thoughts about how one would do normal things like traveling and maintain such a strict goal. I admire anyone who strives to live a lifestyle that creates very little waste.

As for me, I live in an area with food stores that stock little, or nothing, in the way of bulk items.  I’m not even going to look into the possibility of getting everything I would substitute for items in plastic containers sent to me from online purchases. And, how would they send items to me without a plastic or box container? My choice: I’ve decided to do the best I can with picking up roadside trash and cutting back on items like the amount of paper and plastic products I use. Until we meet again in my next blog, I’ll resolve to make less paper and plastic waste.