Comments on: Reducing Your Garbage is Easy http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/ Living Green. Here. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:52:24 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: pieman33 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-23348 pieman33 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:40:53 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/#comment-23348 Yes, I do think your opinion is righteous. (So do lots of people). Luckily majority of people are intelligent :). Yes, I do think your opinion is righteous. (So do lots of people). Luckily majority of people are intelligent :) .

]]> By: Despite What the Bin Say, You CAN Recycle Paperboard Curbside…Really at Go Green Charleston || Local Environmental News, Information, and Advocacy http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-12551 Despite What the Bin Say, You CAN Recycle Paperboard Curbside…Really at Go Green Charleston || Local Environmental News, Information, and Advocacy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:04:07 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/#comment-12551 [...] Reducing Your Garbage is Easy Related posts in Announcements, Charleston County, Local Projects, Paper, Recycling [...] [...] Reducing Your Garbage is Easy Related posts in Announcements, Charleston County, Local Projects, Paper, Recycling [...]

]]> By: Paul http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 Paul Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:59:56 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/10/03/reducing-your-garbage-is-easy/#comment-1385 Hi Chad, Great post and great progress! I've been trying to do the same thing, but I haven't kept good records of how many times I put out the trash. I'd say once every 3-4 weeks or so, but it is rarely even half-full for our family of three, plus 2 dogs and a cat. We recycle everything we can, especially paper, compost organics (including unrecyclable paper shreds like paper towels (the unbleached, 100% recycled ones from Publix), coffee grounds and banana peels from work, dog/cat hair and yard clippings). Our dogs consume most of our food scraps and their poop is shoveled into a border, the ivy loves it! I have recently begun composting our cat litter in a separate pile away from the other composting. All the poop is flushed, so it is just ammonia, water and litter covered with leaves. I use a combination of that recycled pine sawdust litter mixed with the reject recycled newspaper litter. It is a work in progress, but so far so good with no smell. We take anything usable to Goodwill or the Kidney Foundation or give it away on Freecycle.org. Another thing we do is when we walk our dogs around the neighborhood, we bring plastic bags (we have switched to reusable bags, so my source is other people's at work) and pick up trash and recyclables to bring home. We have no problem filling up 2 bags and more of it is recyclable bottles and cans than trash. Publix will take plastic bags, brown paper bags and styrofoam egg cartons and containers, so we take those there. Our biggest trash issues are still plastic envelope windows, plastic packaging, #5 plastic containers (Argh!) and tissues. Hi Chad,
Great post and great progress! I’ve been trying to do the same thing, but I haven’t kept good records of how many times I put out the trash. I’d say once every 3-4 weeks or so, but it is rarely even half-full for our family of three, plus 2 dogs and a cat.

We recycle everything we can, especially paper, compost organics (including unrecyclable paper shreds like paper towels (the unbleached, 100% recycled ones from Publix), coffee grounds and banana peels from work, dog/cat hair and yard clippings). Our dogs consume most of our food scraps and their poop is shoveled into a border, the ivy loves it!

I have recently begun composting our cat litter in a separate pile away from the other composting. All the poop is flushed, so it is just ammonia, water and litter covered with leaves. I use a combination of that recycled pine sawdust litter mixed with the reject recycled newspaper litter. It is a work in progress, but so far so good with no smell.

We take anything usable to Goodwill or the Kidney Foundation or give it away on Freecycle.org.

Another thing we do is when we walk our dogs around the neighborhood, we bring plastic bags (we have switched to reusable bags, so my source is other people’s at work) and pick up trash and recyclables to bring home. We have no problem filling up 2 bags and more of it is recyclable bottles and cans than trash.

Publix will take plastic bags, brown paper bags and styrofoam egg cartons and containers, so we take those there.

Our biggest trash issues are still plastic envelope windows, plastic packaging, #5 plastic containers (Argh!) and tissues.

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