I Decided To Get Rid of The Trash Today!
Read More: Dan Hamon just inspired me to radical action! No, he didn't come right out and tell me to DO something radical, but his new blog that I just got off talks about a subject that's just rotten... IT'S COMPOST!
This is from a group post I placed in the BN group Save The Planet. Lofty goal, huh? Well, maybe, but it drives home the point that we all could work towards being better stewards over what we have. I'm not camping out in the top of some tree to save it from an interstate highway project or anything, but let's just try to be more responsible.
Anyhow, he referred to some of what he composts as "would be landfill" and this is what really got me to stand up and make a decision about something that's been on my mind for a while now.
You know what I just did? Just 5 minutes ago. I cancelled my garbage pickup. Crazy, isn't it?
It's crazy, but I did it anyhow.
Been thinking about it for a while and I finally did it!
There's a couple of things:
1 We create way too much garbage and this will get us to be more consciencious about what we buy and what has to happen to all the packaging etc that we bring home.
2 Have you ever seen how horrible it looks around a landfill that has no way of containing all of the plastic bags from the grocery store. STOP USING THEM! It's so disgusting.
Here's a plastic bag fence around a landfill... isn't that just so appealing?
Our landfill doesn't even have a plastic bag fence. This is kind of what the landscape around our landfill looks like. Now just imagine this same image with thousands of plastic grocery bags blowing around or stuck and clinging to the brush, outside of the landfill, never to be picked up by anybody that was responsible for failing to manage the mess. That's the area around our landfill!
Maybe cutting trash service all together is too drastic for some people's tastes, but if you want to help the environment a bit stop buying so much stuff that is not consciensciously packaged.
More paper, less plastics, or bring canvas bags to the store.
Start composting and use it in gardens around your home, container gardens, or give it to a gardening friend. Use paper and cardboard, if it's low on ink, gloss, or chemicals, in your compost. Use kitchen scraps for compost, excluding bones, fats, oils, or meat.
Buy more fresh produce with limited packaging. It's healthier for you to eat anyhow.
There's lots of things that can be done to help out.
You don't have to chain yourself to that big tree in your city park scheduled for removal because it's diseased or something, but just use some common sense.
Here's a link to Dan's blog: http://letscompost.blogspot.com/search/label/compost
Abundance & Prosperity in all you do,
Randy Enman
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Trash
People need to do more about the trash they throw along side the highways and byways of this great nation that they say they Love so much . Great article keep them coming.
Trying to do our small part at the big lake...
HEYA
Randy thanks for the reminder,there's a lot of people out there that are clueless. We have a good recycling program at a motel I own, and try to educate our guests as much as possible. Have a super day...
Keep it Going
Its going to take all of us!
It is heart breaking when we think about the truth of it! Thanks for bringing that to the surface Randy! It is so important, this is our world to live and enjoy. We need to protect it, nurture it and work together for a great cause.
Your Friend For Life,
Jenny Wudtke
It Wont Be Easy, But It Can Be Done.
I do agree that we do need to take better care of our planet, being that it is the only one that we have. If everyone did their part it would make a world of difference in our pollution production. I have actually learned something very important in reading this blog though, and that is using paper bags instead of plastic. I personally use plastic because I thought that it would help cut down on the cutting down of trees, but now that I think about it, paper will break down a whole lot faster than plastic will. Well I guess that I will be using paper from now on. Thanks for the info.
Best wishes to you,
Alfonzo Gasaway II
http://AlfonzoGasaway.bigmlmtruths.com
POWERFUL MESSAGE
Thanks for the inspiring and powerful message Randy. Finally it has become viral to look after our planet.....as usual nothing much happened until it is almost too late.
Yeah - it is all about thinking globally and acting locally. Im glad I dont live near a dump site...and my heart breaks for those peoople in many countries who LIVE on the site and gleam their existance from it.
I have a phobia about garbage collection. Its the highlight of my week (weird eh)(I live a dull life). But I have 30+ cats and most of my garbage is their litter and I live in fear that it will be too heavy to be lifted. I put it on the curb and then watch anxiously to see if it gets emptied. Every week - when it does - I praise the Lord with my thanks. How very fortunate we are to have that service.
Someone told me once that she lived in Japan for a while (decades ago) and she was very embarassed at the size of garbage that she put on her walk every week. Apparently even then Japanese families were very conscientious about sustainable space and had a fraction of the garbage that the Can. woman had.
We are very spoiled on this continent....and I think our chickens are coming home to roost (Whatever that means LOL).
Again
When I first read your heading - I was thinking of getting rid of the garbage in our heads.
Thats a worthwhile exercise too eh?
That Landfill Looks Familiar
Hi, Randy,
Nice post. I had to drop by to say I thought that landfill looked familiar. Visited your profile and I see you are also from Utah. My corner of the Salt Lake valley is getting more crowded and looking less and less like your desert picture, more's the pity.
Reminds me of when the Moab landfill (which we just called 'dump' at that time) was voted the most beautiful in the world, lol. That was probably 20 years ago, and we all thought it was a hoot.
Well, I like your thinking. Can you give me any suggestions for composting the pile of tumbleweeds in my backyard? Too prickly to pick up and take to the, ahem, landfill, and they won't let us burn them....now what?
Your Composting Question...
Hi Cheri,
Been meaning to get back with you. I've been awful busy. Sorry.
I would say a couple things about composting tumble weeds.
First you want to be sure that you get your compost pile hot enough that it kills the seed, so you're not just spreading them. I guess just having them blow around the back yard would spread seed too however. :)
If you have access to some pallets, they make good bins for composting in. However cover the sides (on the inside of your bin)with cardboard or some kind of plastic or tarp, so the bin holds more moisture and doesn't dry too quickly.
I recommend a layer of grass clippings, alfalfa, straw or some other organic item on the bottom layer before you start putting in the tumble weed, just to keep the seed away from the ground. You want it a bit off the ground so all the tumbleweed is exposed to the majority of the heat put off by composting.
A compost pile done right will get easily hot enough to kill weed seeds. Layer your tumbleweeds, grass clippings, leaves or extra dirt if available, and after your last layer of tumble weed add one or two more layers of grass, leaves and/or dirt if available.
This should all be moist but not saturated. After properly wetting cover it with some wet burlap or a tarp to help hold more heat in the pile.
Once it starts composting correctly it should be uncomfortable to hold your hand in there for any more than about 5 seconds.
Hope you have a rotten day! ;) (I mean that in a good way ;) ...composting joke! he he)
Abundance & Prosperity in all you do,
Randy Enman