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Topic: It's not easy being Green: Enviromental Questions

#	Author	Message
11	DyGDisney Wed 4/30/2008 11:12a	Mele, what kind of garbage container do you use? I thought about just putting a plastic container under the sink, but dumping that in the toater would just be wrong!!! Can you imagine the smell?? I do like the idea of re-usable bags at a store like Target which doesn't offer paper bags (at least ours doesn't). I also do a lot of my grocery shopping at Sam's Club, so no bags are provided.
12	mele Wed 4/30/2008 11:20a	I must admit, we just throw it in the big garbage can. We just got a 2nd dog in January so we haven't worked out the warmer, summer months yet. ;-) The hardest part of using the fabric bags is just remembering to take them back out to the car when you're done and to bring them into the store. They're really cheap (usually a buck or so) and now there are some cute designs. Our Sam's Club is so far away that I've never visited it. I have a huge Costco by our house and we go there often. Usually we just have one or two giant boxes. We've stopped buying as much bottled water and have been using filters. It's really not that hard once you make a new habit. Not sure why that's such a threatening concept to some people. LOL
13	johnno52 Wed 4/30/2008 11:22a	>So I send them plastic baggies. I think it's a little give and take sometimes.< Those little plastic bags end up in my backyard along with all the kids snack wrappers. You give and I take them out. Take a walk around a school yard sometime and check out the garbage that accumulates along the fences. Halloween is not just a one night nightmare, for me it goes on until the candy and chips are all eaten up! :-(
14	mele Wed 4/30/2008 11:27a	It's interesting to see how much trash is generated simply in the processing of packaged foods and other products, not just the packaging of the items. Add that to the energy used to create these items, and it's quite alarming. And when we're talking processed foods, no one should be eating that crap on a consistent basis anyway. They're all-together a bad idea...creates tons of trash, uses lots of energy, costs more money to purchase and makes us all unhealthy and/or fat.
15	mele Wed 4/30/2008 11:28a	I ate a mini-Twix while writing that.
16	BlueDevilSF Wed 4/30/2008 11:32a	I try not to obsess about it too much, but I do take certain steps to recycle stuff. I was doing it before it came fashionable more out of necessity than anything. My partner, however... You wouldn't believe the stuff he throws in the trash. It drives me crazy. We had a lawn put in last summer and were left over with a few of those round, decorative slabs of concrete that were pulled out of the ground. He wants to put them one at a time in the trash. I suggested giving them away on Craigslist, and he said he didn't want anyone traipsing up our lawn. I think I'm going to put them up for grabs anyway. What he doesn't know won't hurt him. I have at least gotten him to recycle aluminum, glass and paper, especially when he realized how much we were spending on garbage bags!
17	DyGDisney Wed 4/30/2008 11:33a	LOL Mele!!! The kinds of things I send in the plastic bags for snack are dried fruit, trail mix, grapes, etc. I really stay away from processed foods (sometimes pretzels). My kids have the boring lunches no one wants!
18	DyGDisney Wed 4/30/2008 11:34a	Oh and johnno52, that stinks. I know it can be tough living by a school. At my kids school they have a program that encourages kids to pick up garbage they find on the ground. I never see much there (and I sub and yard duty sometimes). But I know some kids just litter! Drives me crazy.
19	Mrs ElderP Wed 4/30/2008 11:57a	I try to avoid pacakaged foods too, but because I send ElderP to work with a lunch every day, and sometimes, when he has school, both lunch and dinner. In that context, as all of you other Moms know, packaged foods are really tough to avoid. Me, personally, I rather avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup than packaging, but that's my own lessor of two evils calculation and YMMV.
20	plpeters70 Wed 4/30/2008 12:30p	Question - what did everyone do before we had plastic bags everywhere? How were lunches packed back in the 50s? How did people clean up after their dogs then? Wouldn't it be possible to go back to doing things that way? Or, we could always switch to something like this: http://biobagusa.com/Consumer.htm

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