I joined Sustainability In Style in a 30 day waste weigh up. In these 30 days I did not get rid of any of my garbage, recyclables or compost. In these 30 days I learned various things about myself and how I can make minor changes to live more sustainably. One thing I learned during my waste weigh up is where my waste usually comes from.
Here is what my waste consisted of:
Recycle:
- · Packaging
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2-Cans of soup
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Resign
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Green Superfood mix
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Mascara
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LED Pet Light
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AA Batteries
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Scunci
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Osprey Camelbak
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2 pairs of hiking socks
- · 8 pieces of junk mail
- · 5 pieces of mail
- · 5 clothing/product tags
- · 6 flyers/handouts
- · Paper scraps from art project
- · Liquid containers
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Hard Cider glass bottle
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Gluten Free Beer glass bottle
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Wine glass bottle
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Cranberry plastic bottle
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Apple Cider plastic bottle
- · 28 tea bags
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Most came from a tea party I had and again from
being sick
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Halfway thru my waste weigh-up I switched to loose
leaf tea and a metal strainer
- · 24 receipts
- · I have two broth containers that I will find a way to recycle
Reuse:
- · Two bottle caps
- · Wine cork
- · 3 take out boxes
- 1 toilet paper roll(along with my roommates rolls as well)
- · Chocolate wrappers
- · Small round Cardboard piece from pizza
- · White 8x10 piece of cardboard
- · Incent sticks for kindling
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Being stored in Udis Gluten Free pizza crust
packaging
- · 2 Thick manila envelopes
- · 2 tea boxes for shipping
- · 3 food cardboard packing for shipping
- · 3 packing stuffers
- · 10 various potential bulk item storage items
- · 3 brown paper bags
- · Dog Food Packaging
- · 16 pack tealight candle packaging
- · Rice Cakes Packaging
- · Cookie Mix packaging
- · 46 non-recyclable packaging ranging from tea packs to small dog food packaging
- · 3 non-recyclable containers
- · Old credit card
- · 2 empty tea light candles
- · An unfixable resign mold
- · Razor head
- · 22 dime size pieces of random trash
- · 4 toilet paper squares from removing makeup
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Switched to a soft towel
- · 5 compostable takeout containers
- · 2 napkins
- · 1 brown paper bag ¾ full of food scraps
With seeing all of that I am now less prone to buy things that have packaging. When there is an option to not print a receipt I take that option. There are things that I can reuse so I do not have to buy either the packaging or a similar product. I reused a box my chocolate came in to ship a gift to my cousin, that I reused bubble wrap from a package I received and wrote her letter on the back of a receipt. A togo container now holds my homemade almond milk. My favorite part was turning some of my waste into art!
- Photo Collage
- Mounting was cardboard from the Udis Gluten Free Pizza Crust
- Trim around photos was scrap lace from a sewing project
- Cupcake decoration was a cupcake topper
- The bottle caps and cork will be used in the name of art
- Miniature Dollhouse (in progress)
- The house was the container for vegetable broth
- Smoke from the chimney was pieces of junk mail
- Hanging light was a chocolate wrapper
- The rest will be more upcycled materials!!!
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To check out more photos go to my Instagram hollytalksaton. The waste weigh up allowed me to learn about myself and how I am currently impacting the earth waste wise. I know now where I can stop buying waste and ways to reuse it. This has built me up to my next step to stop buying plastic. I will do this step by step by trial and error. This will be a challenge that I feel necessary to do to live a more sustainable life. I invite you to do a 30 day waste weigh up yourself. I also would love to hear comments, ideas and different resources to help me along my journey to live more sustainably.
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