Climate change

[redhen]

Hey, Old Guy, I didn't say that humans are the main reason, only that that is a prevailing and compelling theory, based on what research has been turning up for decades. As for what WE or I intend to do... I'm not about to commit suicide to reduce the carbon footprint. I didn't ask to be here, but now that I am I hope to live a full life. I do minimize my effect as best I can, but like the wild creatures that live both outside and inside my house, we do what we are wired to do to survive. I have minimal electric appliances, which I use sparingly. I don't drive aimlessly, only for what is necessary, and I walk whenever reasonable. I make sure my catalytic converter functions properly. I consume very little for a Western person. I compost and recycle, and the actual trash I put out for collection is maybe one small grocery bagful every 2 or 3 weeks. And it's mostly biodegradable. I minimize water use. I avoid buying products in non-recyclable and/or excessive packaging; in fact, I buy very little except basic necessities. As a professional gardener, I use only organic/natural fertilizers and minimal (plant-based) pesticides -- usually just soapy water with vegetable oil, and milky spore, and encourage natural ecosystems to develop and thrive in my customers' garden soils. No invasive, exotic speces are planted. Etc. But no one, nothing that lives, leaves without leaving some kind of footprint. That's life.

You must tell me how you get only ONE small grocery bag full of garbage every few weeks...
you must not use paper products at all..the boxes they come in? Or you burn the paper? This is driving me nuts because we have a crazy amount of garbage..
And that's NOT food scraps..I give all my food scraps to my animals..yet my garbage is always full..

 

[Royd]

You must tell me how you get only ONE small grocery bag full of garbage every few weeks...
you must not use paper products at all..the boxes they come in? Or you burn the paper? This is driving me nuts because we have a crazy amount of garbage..
And that's NOT food scraps..I give all my food scraps to my animals..yet my garbage is always full..

I am a single household, paying $250 yr. in Garbage TX and am lucky to have 4 large plastic bags full per year....Paper gets burned or recycled. All recyclables are recycled. The only garbage is plastic bags, which get used at least twice, and indestructible Chinese packaging..If it's compressed, you can pack a lot in a small space....All foodstuffs end up in the compost so there's never an odor problem with the garbage.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

My farm has one bag a week of trash but its aggin the law to burn paper in Ga...

 

[redhen]

Sheesh...we have several big bags a week..maybe more.
I'm gonna go look in my garbage now and tell you what I have..

Okay..off the top..a broken bowl..napkins..cereal box..ziplock baggie .. orange peels..veggie and cat food tin cans.. paper towels ..

 

[Imp]

Sheesh...we have several big bags a week..maybe more.
I'm gonna go look in my garbage now and tell you what I have..

Okay..off the top..a broken bowl..napkins..cereal box..ziplock baggie .. orange peels..veggie and cat food tin cans.. paper towels ..

Red,
It's the law to recycle here. I was furious when they cut garbage collection to 1- 32 gallon can every 2 weeks from 1- 96 gallon can every week. Thought I could never do it. But I've been doing it. Not a problem anymore.
Now that I'm recycling and composting more; I only take those out 1 x a month, unless I'm pruning trees.
Dirty napkins- yard waste
clean napkins- recycle
cereal box- recycle
food scraps- yard waste
cat food tins- recycle

Imp- broken and beaten

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Just looked an I can squish everything in the trash can in to a plastic grocery bag an garbage day is tomorrow. Its mostly tin cans an Gatorade bottles.

 

[RHRanch]

You would be amazed what you can recycle (like for packing material, etc. with a quality shredder.

 

[GardenerGal]

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My community recycles all cardboard and paper, plastic and metal. The little bag of trash I toss every couple or few weeks is mostly used Kleenex. All food scraps go to the poultry or compost, or buried deep.

 

[GardenerGal]

Confidential to OldGuy43,
Got your private message, but it won't let me reply. When I write in the Reply space and try to send, I get a message that tells me to "Please enter a message" as though I hadn't typed anything at all into the window!

 

[hemet dennis]

Confidential to OldGuy43, Got your private message, but it won't let me reply. When I write in the Reply space and try to send, I get a message that tells me to "Please enter a message" as though I hadn't typed anything at all into the window!

Close the window and try again. I've had this happen before.