Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

The morning after I wrote about my quest to save the world, I did this…

bad mamma

d'oh!

 

Homer-simpson-doh
Yeah.  Morning and thinking do not go hand in hand.  

But I have made headway!

  • I put grocery bags in my car and have actually used them.  It's now the little ladies job to bring them in to the store and they freaking love "important jobs" and their little brains remember these things better than I do.  Although I may be teaching them the wrong meaning of "important".   
  • We bought a compost bin!  
    standing compost bin

    hot garbage! awesome!
  • And a little compost bucket for the kitchen!  I've never been so excited to make garbage!
    OXO compost bucket

    there's egg shells and pomegranate remains in there, too

That's it, really.  But 3 things!  That's something!  

Some setbacks?  Tea.  

Yeah, that's right.  Tea.

I'm a big fan of fresh beverages, just like the next person, but why does tea have so much packaging?  

hey

tea, tea bag, tea bag's bag, and tea bag's bag's house

whaddup

tea bag's see-through bag. saucy.


Food, in general, is also troublesome.  Milk bottles are recycleable, but my beloved Greek yogurt's carton is not blue-bin friendly.  Also, ice cream buckets – not green.

Does talking about kitchen scraps count as a "Foodilicious" post?  Do you compost?   Do you seek recycleable packaging?  DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS?  If not, I can lend you my children.  But you have to feed them.

 

James Marsden

Criss Cross

 

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3 responses to “The Garbage Challenge – Battle of the Bags & Compost City”

  1. Marsha Avatar

    Tea balls and loose tea. YUM! Like all things organic it means more work for you, but improvements in other ways to counterbalance that work.

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  2. Kate Bratt Avatar

    Where do you buy such things? Actually, I have a tea ball, and there are some adorable ones at Patina stores (http://www.amazon.com/DCI-Tea-Duckie-Infuser/dp/B004DDBUXQ).
    Yeah, I’m starting to think organic is the only way to go, but even then, you have to do some discovery. Like organic brown rice syrup? Contains arsenic. Boo. Decaffeinated coffee? Often soaked in not-great solvents. Hiss.

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  3. Eileen Avatar
    Eileen

    Buy re-useable tea stuff at Teavana. They have multiple locations in the Twin Cities. http://www.teavana.com
    I recommend this tea tumbler. Comes with a built in strainer so you can infuse your tea right into the tumbler and then steep it.
    http://www.teavana.com/tea-products/tea-cups-mugs/travel-tea-cups/p/teavana-stainless-steel-insulated-tumbler

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