Tag: garbage

Weighing In on Waste

July 14, 2018 Off

As we have now reached the 6 month window of our year of zero waste, I wanted to know if we have further reduced our garbage.  Facing a weigh in of garbage, I am a little nervous.  I am not sure that we have made a significant improvement in our waste reduction recently.  It is…

By Sandra Maki

Zero Waste Jar Envy

April 17, 2018 Off

My brother has joined the zero waste movement and he recently asked me how much I had reduced my garbage.  He has already reduced his waste 80%!   Since we were already composting, I expected that the waste reduction that I would see after 3 months would be negligible.  Plus, we have a cat (really not…

By Sandra Maki

The Big Weigh In

January 10, 2018 Off

The key objective of this challenge is to determine the reduction in waste that our family of four can achieve after 52 weeks.  We will compare the amount of garbage that we create over a 2 week period at the start of the year versus the end of the year. Our starting point is January…

By Sandra Maki