Category: Plastic Tally 2008-01-15

Week 30 Results: .8 oz. of plastic waste

Before I show you this week’s tally, I thought I would give you an idea of what I’ve been hoarding since June 17, 2007. This is all the non-recyclable stuff I’ve collected through last week. Click to see a larger image:
The awful truth is that all the stuff on the blue plastic sheet, [...]

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Week 29 Results: 2.6 oz. of plastic. Making a change.

This past Friday, I attended a planning meeting for Green Sangha’s 2008 Rethinking Plastics campaign. At that meeting, one of the members showed us some video footage of what happens to the plastic recycling that we put into our curbside bins. I knew that most of our plastic was shipped to China, but [...]

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Week 28 Results: 2.9 oz. of plastic

The plastic is up off the floor and onto the table, thanks to a couple of curious kitties. Christmas is over, and so is the year, almost. Here’s the weekly tally, which includes all the rest of the plastic packaging from the holidays except for one notable exception. In order to keep [...]

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Week 27 Results: 4.4 oz of plastic, kitties not included.

Kitties are here! So is the weekly tally and the start of the holiday plastic. More next week, but hopefully not too much more.
Non-recyclable items used this week but purchased before the plastic project began:

3 hunks of packing tape from broken down boxes. Cleaning up for the kitties, I’ve been consolidating the [...]

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Week 26 Results: 1.0 oz of plastic.

The amount of plastic is back down again, weighing less than ever. This is the 26th week, the end of the first 6 months, and you’ll notice that the graph looks somewhat different.
From now on, I’ll still photograph and tally my waste each week, but the graph is going to show one bar for [...]

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