Living green certainly eats up a lot of time and effort: sorting our trash into biodegradable and non-biodegradable, buying huge flower pots for food waste (unfortunately our apartment does not come with a yard) - my version of a compost, and making separate categories for clean paper, batteries and what not.
But it has its perks! I collect all clean plastic bags and set them aside for my favorite fruit vendor. After asking if it was okay with him if I give him our clean plastic bags (from previous purchases elsewhere), I've been bringing him those bags since then. Not only do I get a considerable discount (which I did not expect) for my purchases, I also walk home with a grin on my face. Plus I am making sure that all those clean, reusable plastic bags are put into good use, instead of ending up in the trash bin and in the huge landfills.
But there's one drawback about all these detailed sorting of "trash," - it's driving my loving hubby up the wall. How exactly? Now that' s for an entirely new blog.
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Love that post, I am not totally a "greenie" but I do things like compost, use a re-usable bag when I am shopping and refuse plastic bags. The course where I work is now printing student books on recyclable paper and I have talked the staff into having private cups instead of using disposable ones. So, I am a sort of greenie. I grin simply because I enjoy life :-)
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My family turn the vegetable and fruit waste, which are before cooked, into enzyme. We use the enzyme to clean the floor. It is sort of fertilizer as well.
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