I'm cursing the box of 72 fruit bars I bought last week. My thought was "....mmmm, an apple in every bar....my kids really do love them and they're so convenient". Well now there's piles of foil wrappers in the garbage, several of which I consumed. I also whish they had never invented pre-washed, organic lettuce in a plastic box. I'm standing in the produce section and my thougt is "wash each piece of lettuce and spin dry or throw in a bowl and have dinner ready 5 minutes earlier". There's some garbage that's difficult to avoid but these are items where I have to make more of an effort. The garbage that I'm creating now is from items that were all previously purchased. The real test of reducing my garbage comes when I'm back at the grocery store. I will also make an effort to eat less meat. There are many benefits to this of course but the one I'm thinking of now is to avoid those rediculous styrofoam trays that meat is sold on. One of the worst offenders in my mind.
Today at my gym I asked if they would put their sugar in those diner style glass jars instead of individual packets of sugar. The response that I got was "that would be too unhygienic...all those people touching the same sugar container". You have got to be kidding me!!

Kirsten