Since today is voting day, let's talk about garbage.
Last week, I mentioned how food (mostly its packaging) was the biggest speed bump in my journey to save the earth. But I've come up with some awesome news for me. And you. Whatev.
First, I happened to buy some Bear Naked granola a couple weeks ago. I've liked their goods for a while, but they also gained points when they provided a free mix-your-own-granola stand at the Warrior Dash.
MIX YOUR OWN!
"Can I add more chocolate? How about now? More? Oh, hell, can I just have a bag of chocolate? What? That's not granola? YOU'RE not granola!"
And NOW, I'm reading the back of the packaging and discovering you can send in your granola bags for neat stuff and they recycle your bags into other neat stuff through their Sustainable Packaging Project.
Terracycle, the company that Bear Naked uses for the recycleage (totally a word) of their boxes and wrappers, works with a BUNCH of different companies to offer recycling for hard-to-recycle stuff. I mean, couldn't we all join the Candy Wrapper Brigade at this point? Can't you see us combining efforts to get a set of these for The G?
Locally, Eureka Recycling wants to get curbside compost into the St. Paul city budget, but it didn't get approved by the mayor for 2013. Eureka is still making an effort to get my Greek yogurt containers curbside and is trying to go waste-free by 2020.
Clearly, they were drunk when they made that resolution, but I salute their BHAG.
I mean, waste-free is no joke. That's a lot of conscious consumerism upgrades you have to make. First, you read food labels for calories, now you're looking for the little numbered triangle.
Then, as you're potty-training your child or your dog or your llama, you have to think if you should use a paper towel to clean up their mess, or a regular towel. And then you have to worry about your carbon footprint from turning on the dryer after using the regular towel. And then you wonder if the term "carbon footprint" is still a thing because you haven't heard it for awhile and then you "do a Google" and find out it's very much still a thing and then you realize your computer is probably the devil and …
Well, that's where I draw the line.
So yeah, I'm recycling some more and throwing my food in the compost bin and using my computer and have all the lights on and life is good.
Riot and Frolic 
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