If I'm only looking at my own personal trash, not my family's as a whole, I'm doing pretty good. I've got two recyclable items and a tiny amount of cotton from hemming a pair of curtains. I can't think what to do with the cotton apart from stick it in my kids's craft box and hope they make something of it someday.
As for the family's trash, well that's another story. Mostly it's food wrapping, such as the elastic band and cellophane the broccoli comes in, and tissues. I really do my best not to purchase overly packaged food, but it's hard to avoid sometimes. At the grocery store any fruit/veggie that's not wrapped will have a plastic sticker on it, and at the health food store they wrap everything in plastic claiming it dries out if they don't. Grrr! I resolve to complain about this at my local stores on a regular basis. Summer is easier because we get most of our plastic-free veggies from a local farmer.
Cloth hankies are on my to-do list for this week. I've also resolved to empty the vacuum into the compost instead of the trash. It's mostly dog fur. That's good for compost isn't it?!
LKS
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