1000 Flowers for the Planet - #544 Ditch the Bin Liners
There are lots of people who are living their lives
plastic-free and lots of people who are living their lives creating zero- or
near-zero-waste. They are to be admired, because it takes conviction, effort,
thought and a truly proactive life to live by those credos. One such woman
writes a terrific blog at http://www.zerowastehome.com/p/tips.html,
which I would encourage you to take a good look at for lots of wonderful ways
to help make this a better planet.
Today’s challenge is to ditch the bin-liners. We
all know they are made of plastic, and they are, in fact, ‘bags’, so while
people are concentrating on reducing plastic grocery bags, let’s take a look at
this other type of overlooked yet equally unnecessary bag: If you are doing the
right thing with your food waste (wet waste) it is being composted or put in a
biofermenter to be buried later or rotted down some way. Good. That means that
everything else that goes into your rubbish bin / trash can will be ‘dry’
rubbish, which doesn’t need to be wrapped up in a plastic bag. If you ever have
something wet that needs to go in the bin then wrap it up in newspaper. However,
ditching the plastic bin liner is a device to make you more aware of what you
actually ‘throw away’, and hopefully you will stop in your tracks and have a
think about what you’re doing. This may lead to finding different ways of
dealing with your waste, or better still, finding ways not to produce that
waste in the first place. Try ditching the bin liner as a family exercise and
take pleasure from the group discussion it will promote and the ideas you can
brainstorm together as a family that cares for the planet. Less waste will go
to landfill, you may very well end up saving lots of money, and the earth will
breathe more easily.
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