Category: Beth’s Weekly/Monthly Plastic Tallies

June 2010 Plastic Waste Tally

Here is my June 2010 plastic trash collection tally: 2.8 oz Plastic Waste [1.7 oz new/1.1 oz acquired prior to June 2007] Every month, I tally my plastic waste in an effort to find plastic-free alternatives wherever possible.

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May 2010 Plastic Waste Tally

Here is my May 2010 plastic trash collection tally: 5.3 oz Plastic Waste [3.5 oz new/1.8 oz acquired prior to June 2007] Every month, I tally my plastic waste in an effort to find plastic-free alternatives wherever possible.

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Reducing Plastic Waste: April 2010 Collection Results

The April 2010 plastic trash collection from plastic-free blogger who collects and tallies her plastic waste each month & finds plastic-free alternatives.

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Reducing Plastic Waste: March 2010 Collection Results

4.0 oz Plastic Waste [.2 oz new/3.8 oz acquired prior to June 2007] Holy cow!  Lady Gaga called today.  Seriously.  I’ll tell you all about it at the bottom of this post.  For now, here is: Beth’s March plastic waste collection If it hadn’t been for that silly broken digital scale, my total plastic waste [...]

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Reducing Plastic Waste: February 2010 Collection Results

6.9oz Plastic Waste [5 oz new/1.9 oz acquired prior to June 2007] For some reason, February felt like a very, very long month. Gray drizzly days.  And we don’t even get snow here. Welcome to those who are discovering this blog after watching the segment on ABC7 morning news today.  Every month I collect and [...]

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Reducing Plastic Waste: January 2010 Collection Results

6.4oz Plastic Waste [3.2oz new/3.2oz acquired prior to June 2007] It’s a new year and a new plastic collection. For those just joining this blog, every month I collect and tally my plastic waste to see how far I’ve come and what still needs to be done. As I mentioned in my post “8 Reasons [...]

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2009 Plastic Waste: 3.7 pounds! New 2010 Resolutions

2009 is over, and I’m thrilled to report that my new collected plastic for the year comes in at 3.7 pounds, roughly 4% of the U.S. per capita average. Geeks out there can check my calculations at the bottom of this post. I created a little video for you guys showing me dumping out my [...]

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Reducing Plastic Waste: Dec 15 – 31 2009 Collection Results

7.4oz of Plastic Waste 2009 is over. Another year of collecting and tallying my own plastic waste. Turns out, my total 2009 plastic collection  adds up to roughly 4% of the national average. Really. But I’ll have much more on that in a special post on Monday. This post represents the last bit of plastic [...]

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Year 3, Month 6 Results: 6.9 oz of Plastic Waste

I’m so happy to be writing this post!  Even with all the plastic in the photo above (ugh!) I am thrilled to be typing these words and seeing them appear on the screen. See, I got hacked this weekend, and Fake Plastic Fish went down.  Let this be a lesson to any WordPress bloggers out [...]

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Year 3, Month 5 Results: 8.9 oz of Plastic Waste

In the past month, I have given up more than plastic. I actually have not had a sip of any alcoholic beverage in 31 days. And I haven’t had coffee in that length of time either. I stopped drinking black tea 2 weeks ago. At this point, the only caffeine in my life comes from [...]

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