Trash days 1-4

  Since the majority of my week wasn't a normal school week, my trash is a bit more random and spontaneous as opposed to what it would have been like had I been to school everyday this week. As an fyi, my usual school cafeteria trash would consist of a water bottle, a bag of chips and a yogurt, while my trash if I pack a lunch consists of a juice box, and one or two Ziploc bags. My morning trash usually consists of a package of emergen-C. Other daily trash includes Kleenex and an occasional candy wrapper. This daily trash adds up to a decent amount of waste by the end of the week. Since food is required to live it is the most consumed. And since most manufactured American food these days seems to come in some sort of packaging, it seems to be the biggest waste producer. It is kind of ironic that that which sustains life comes in something that cannot sustain life.

  Now about my trash, it appears, in spite of the relatively short amount of time to record, that most of my trash is usually produced outside the home. At home,  I have deli and homemade food that isn't individually wrapped. This decreases waste. Even bringing chips to school instead of buying them from the cafeteria can reduce waste as the chip bags are usually bigger and can provide more than the small, disposable snack sized bags. Also a zip-lock bag can be used to bring a snack, then can be re-used if desired due to it being reseal-able,unlike small chip bags that aren't resealable.  Some snacks like crackers come in big boxes, but the small snack sized version ONLY come in the small, non-recyclable plastic bags.

  Just pretend these ramen packages have been ravenously torn open and are now sitting in a pot of boiling water. I admit ramen may be the most wasteful food product I consume in my house as it contains two pieces of packaging:the noodle packaging, and the flavor packet. I usually eat two of these at a time, so that doubles my waste.



  Just in case you can't see clearly, its a Samoa girl scout cookie Crunch bar..best invention ever.  I am however, prone to buy in excess. This leads to a plethora of un-eaten and sometimes un-opened snack foods. The lucky snacks are ironically the ones that are eaten and whose wrappers make it to the trash can, such as this crunch bar.