Bye Bye Trash!

Hello! This blog was by far the most difficult of all blogs yet this semester. My teacher assigned my environmental science class to keep track of all the trash we wasted in a two day period. Then, look up ways to reduce the amount of waste. Following up with the new ideas of reducing waste, take two more days and try to reduce as much trash as possible. So the first day, I used up a total of 64 pieces of trash. I woke up and made breakfast. Breakfast included the gallon of milk, the plastic bag of french toast bread, and the card board container for the eggs. We also used disposable paper plates and utensils because we did not have time to clean up after. I also cleaned up the house, using paper towels to clean mirrors and etc. I also got reciepts from the store, grocergy bags, and reciepts from the gas station. For dinner, I was at work. I bought food their. This was an additional amount of trash to the day. The second day I used half the amount because I did not go to the grocery store. I did not get gas either.  Most of my trash consisted of recycables, like paper, reciepts and paper towels. A huge amount was the grocery bags. A list of reducing wastes were: using reusable napkins, reusing bottle cleaners and making your own home cleaners, buys reusable grocery bags, and etc. The third day, I went and bought bags from ralphs that were reusable. I bought cloths to use for hand drying.I also used the newspaper articles I usually throw away to clean my mirrors. It actually leaves them cleaner with no little pieces of paper left on the mirror. I will continue using these new ideas, because I used as much trash both days, as I used the second day. 32 pieces of trash! No plastic plates, no plastic forks, no plastic cups, or plastic bags! Bye bye trash!!!