Todays landfill bag weighed in at 250g.
The landfill bin is now half full, that is from 8 weeks worth of rubbish, including one bag of fire clinker.
The recycling bin was collected this morning and it was only half full from the last 2 weeks.
I have noticed that the main items going into the recycling are, paper & cardboard, plastic (PET) bottles, plastic (HDPE) bottles and food cans.
I do still have a separate collection point for non-collectible plastics which I will be taking to the Recycling Centre on Wednesday, along with a few bits found whilst sorting some things to put on Freecycle.
I also have another carrier bag full of "Tesco" wrappers which do not state plastic origin which will be taken back to the store when I next go.
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Monday 27 October 2008
Monday 20 October 2008
Week Ending Sunday 19 October 2008
This week, the bag of rubbish going into the landfill bin weighs in at 490g, this is more than has been usual for the last few weeks; but I did go round a few bit bins which haven't been emptied for a couple of weeks.
The landfill bin is now half full and that is since 1 Sept when I joined the Zero Waste week.
Monday 13 October 2008
Week Ending Sunday 12 October 2008
This weeks bag for the landfill bin is slightly bigger than has been for the last few weeks.
Having checked through the contents, there are 4 widgets from Dave's beer cans, quite a few bottle tops of undistinguishable plastic, and some plastic wrap that is not supermarket own label so I can't send it back to them, and a lamb bone from the joint we had during the week, which although boiled to death for stock as well, has to go into the landfill bin..
Anyhow the bag weighed in at ...... 447g, which is still fairly good.
I will be double checking everything again this week, as I would prefer it to not be above 300g if at all possible.
Having checked through the contents, there are 4 widgets from Dave's beer cans, quite a few bottle tops of undistinguishable plastic, and some plastic wrap that is not supermarket own label so I can't send it back to them, and a lamb bone from the joint we had during the week, which although boiled to death for stock as well, has to go into the landfill bin..
Anyhow the bag weighed in at ...... 447g, which is still fairly good.
I will be double checking everything again this week, as I would prefer it to not be above 300g if at all possible.
Monday 6 October 2008
Week Ending Sunday 5 October
The bag of rubbish today weighed 279g.
This included a salt shaker from some "Geo-organic" sea salt I had purchased ages ago, and thought I could re-fill it; no it is a sealed unit and does not even indicate plastic type for recycling.
Some of the plastic packaging that would normally have gone in has been posted off to Tesco HQ, see copy of letter on http://www.ourgreeneryear.blogspot.com/
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