I Decided To Get Rid of The Trash Today!

  Written by Randy Enman on Feb 25, 2009 5:30 pm

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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!

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, pot 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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