Recycled Thoughts

Guilt, guilt, guilt over ALL the diapers we are sending into the landfill! It sent me over the edge into the recycling world last month.

Of course, the recycling increased our quarterly trash bill by $18 BUT I also got the trash portion of the bill reduced by $4 a quarter. Almost 1 quarter of recycling free!

Back story on the price reduction.....Bunch of us neighborhood ladies were talking about the economy, price cutting, and what bills we had 'cut'. It came out that people were paying 2 different rates for trash, I think it had to do with when you signed on. So hooray for Liberty Trash being nice and reducing my rate!

The trashcan that all the recycling goes in is about 3/4 the size of the Bigger trash container. To my utter amazement we actually FILLED the thing the 2 wks before they picked it up. When you REALLY start realizing how many things have the little triangle of recycling it does start to embarrass you.

Because this is cutting down on trash, I figure we might actually cut down on the # of trashbags we use every month. So I did some simple math.

Previous bags/wk - 5, which is 260/yr
Current - 3, which is 156

Math:
260-156 = 104 fewer bags a trash a year!

The box of trash bags we buy is always in counts of 80 from BJ's for $9 or less if I have a coupon. (FYI, for people with club memberships, BJ's takes coupons!) This means I'm going through $12 less in trashbags per year! Not a huge savings but it almost makes up for another quarter of recycling cost.

BUT, here's one I had to laugh at.

We buy Nora these organic ravioli's at BJ's because she LOVES them and doesn't like tomato sauce. Organic product, hard plastic packaging, NOT recyclable?

Ironic isn't it?