Resolution Time!

Its a new year, time for a fresh start, kick the bad habits, try to make improvements, everyone has the best of intentions. For 2009 my resolution is STOP USING PLASTIC BAGS.

How can I possibly do that you ask, our world revolves around plastic? Well I'm starting in my kitchen --- how many plastic trash bags do you use each year? month? week? Well sad news, they will never go away! This year I'm going to try to use as few (to none) if possible --- sounds pretty dirty, I know! So I have 1 plastic liner in there now, but I started putting ALL "wet" items in an old coffee tin, these are the things that stink up the garbage can and make the plastic sack messy and not reusable. So anything wet goes in the can (mostly food scraps), I take the can to the dumpster every couple of days to dump out the contents and bring the can back. I will do more composting in the spring when I can manage everything better. Then I'll rinse the tin can and dump the murky water into my flower pots outside. What goes in the "trash can" are mostly plastic (grrrr!) packaging/wrapping that aren't easy to recycle. Since these are all "dry items" I can dump the trash and reuse the liner bag, or won't even need a liner at all!!!

Also, I finally bought some biobags for myself - they are trash bags made out of corn, 100% compostable/biodegradable! Go biobags!!! They aren't cheap, so I'll use them wisely!

I'm also on an "green" cleaning product kick.........so I'm using up all of my old cleaners and replacing with earth-friendly versions. Who would of thought cleaning could be sooo fun!

Well stay GREEN this year and I hope you too are inspired to make a change this year!