Dry Kitchen Trash
I know. I am three months behind in my “A Cleaner Slate” project. I was stuck, to be honest, and frustrated about how things are coming along with this whole zero waste thing. But some people and the zero waste community encouraged and inspired me again to just keep moving forward. I may not be doing it perfectly but progressing slowly anyway. So let’s talk about your dry kitchen trash. What are they, anyway? We’re talking about anything outside food scraps that isn’t plastic (coz by this time that should have been limited already). There will be an entirely different topic on that. Here are some examples of our dry kitchen trash: 1. Paper Bags 2. Tissue Paper 3. Empty Tetra Packs 4. Cardboard Boxes We’ll be focusing on these four because based on my trash audit these were some of my issues. Paper Bags: There are some establishments that now pack your purchases in paper bags. Most of them do so I would often find paper bags everywhere from trips where I failed to bri...