buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
It's taken me years, but I've finally gotten my family to really make an effort to recycle. We now strip away any paper or plastic from any food packaging and that goes in the recycling cans. Same goes for glass or metal containers, but there seemsvto he fewer and feewer of those as time marches on.
Where we used to put out a full garbage can or two twice a week for regular garbage puck up, but now we only put out one, and it's often not filled. However, our recycling cans are always overflowing. I just put out 2 completely full 50 gallon "garbage" cans for recycling, along with another large box of just paper goods.
I'm looking forward to see how my neighbors respond. They are all very snooty and terribly competitive, so no to be outdone by us, I hope they start to recycle more as well (simply because they are better than us, of course. Lol).
Getting back to frugality, I keep and reuse almost all plastic containers from takeout food or whayever container that has a decently tight fitting lid. I use them to store leftovers, or to bring food in to work, or even to use for marinating food if they're large enough.
Why buy tupperware, or especially those cheap Glad brand containers that never seem to have petfectly matching lids, when you get better sealing containers for free from takeout?
Where we used to put out a full garbage can or two twice a week for regular garbage puck up, but now we only put out one, and it's often not filled. However, our recycling cans are always overflowing. I just put out 2 completely full 50 gallon "garbage" cans for recycling, along with another large box of just paper goods.
I'm looking forward to see how my neighbors respond. They are all very snooty and terribly competitive, so no to be outdone by us, I hope they start to recycle more as well (simply because they are better than us, of course. Lol).
Getting back to frugality, I keep and reuse almost all plastic containers from takeout food or whayever container that has a decently tight fitting lid. I use them to store leftovers, or to bring food in to work, or even to use for marinating food if they're large enough.
Why buy tupperware, or especially those cheap Glad brand containers that never seem to have petfectly matching lids, when you get better sealing containers for free from takeout?