Most American households produce large amounts of garbage. All of it has to go somewhere. This week’s “Change the World Wednesdays” challenge is about raising awareness of how much garbage you produce.
Change the World Wednesdays
This week, collect your garbage rather than toss it out. Continue to compost and recycle, but rather than take your bag of “real” garbage to the dumpster or put it out for collection … keep it. At the end of the week, take a look at how much you’ve collected and consider ways to reduce it. This should truly open our eyes to the amount of waste in our lives.
As it happens, my household does this all the time, because we can’t afford garbage pickup. We try to minimize what we bring into the house that will leave waste. We burn what is burnable, compost what is biodegradable, and recycle everything that we can find a place to send.
All About Garbage
Take some time to think about garbage, how much you produce, and what happens to it.
Learn how much garbage the average American throws away and what it contains.
Find out what happens at a landfill.
Calculate your carbon footprint. If you throw out a lot of garbage, you could be tromping around the Earth in clown shoes.
Take this quiz about waste and excess in America.
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