Comments on: Plastic Challenge: Laura in Maine, Week 2 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/laura-in-maine-week-2/ Take the challenge. Collect your plastic waste (both recyclable and non) for one week or more. Then photograph, tally, and post it here. What can we learn about our habits and lifestyles by examining our waste? And what changes can each of us make to leave the planet a little less trashy? Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: EcoCatLady (AKA Rebecca) http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/laura-in-maine-week-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1932 EcoCatLady (AKA Rebecca) Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:47:06 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=547#comment-1932 My garbage bag solution is even more bizarre. I gather bags of leaves from my neighbors in the fall to use as compost and mulch in my garden. Then I recycle the bags that can be recycled and keep the ones that can’t (the black ones) to use for trash on the rare occasions that I need them. I guess that doesn’t completely address the “messy” issue, but it works for me and I haven’t bought a trash bag in over 10 years.

]]> By: Beth Terry http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/laura-in-maine-week-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 Beth Terry Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:34:11 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=547#comment-1931 Hi Laura. Great idea about making your own brown sugar. I’ve never thought of it!

I can’t wait to hear how your trip to the coop works out.

Here’s a suggestion about those garbage bags. You wrote in last week’s post that you are planning a garden. Are you planning to compost? Composting wet garbage is a great way to reduce the amount you’re throwing away and thus reduce your need for plastic garbage bags. We actually don’t use any garbage bags at all because after composting the wet stuff, what’s left isn’t messy enough to need a bag.

Here’s the post I wrote on the subject, if you’re interested.

http://myplasticfreelife.com/2010/02/collecting-garbage-without-plastic-trash-bags/

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