Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How are you doing this month?

So, hi! How is it going for you this month?

Thank you all for your comments on my crunchy towels last week. I did indeed check by brand, and you will all be interested to note that indeed, my fancy-schmancy towels from Garnet Hill were less crispety-crackly than the whatever-brand towels I picked up from Bed, Bath & Beyond. So the lesson here appears to be that whatever resources and money are saved in line-drying ... will be picked up by the resources and money spent getting spendy towels shipped to your house.

(I say, tongue in cheek.)

Enough about me. How are you all doing? Can you believe we've been at this for ten months now?

Comments

[drunkey monkey]

So far I have had two veggie lunches this week -- pasta one day, veggie soup another. I had a sandwich with meat in it on Wednesday -- though I did make it at home, at least. I was actually too busy at work today to take lunch, so I'm not sure what that counts for.

[Kerry]

I've got a new way to recycle leftovers--one of my coworkers is a balancing a full-time job with full-time grad school, and is amenable to accepting any food that doesn't have dairy.

[bosch]

Here's my dilemma for the month- garbage disposal: awesome answer to reducing my throwaway, or just making more pollution for the water table? I know the obvious answer is to compost, but when it's not an option (as it's not in my apartment, I mean, what do you do with the composted product when you have no garden? I can't imagine my complex would be too happy with me making mounds of it and just dumping it off the balcony... but I digress...) what's the best choice? I want to feel better about not putting so much food garbage into the landfill, but at the same time I worry about putting more ick into the water system. Any thoughts?

[Polly]

Bosch, if you have no yard and no compostable pick-up, a lot of time community gardens or even local nurseries or farmers markets will accept food scraps for compost. In addition to making sewage, garbage disposals use a lot of water, so they're not a great option. Around here (I live in the Seattle area, so water pollution is a big issue because of the salmon), they ask us to use disposals as little as possible.