recycle everything

K y’all.. this might be really obvious, but this site is a really good resource for recycling ideas!

http://www.world.org/weo/recycle

Check it out!!

Wow.. what a difference it makes to live in a very pro-recycling city! They offer more recycling bins than trash cans for curb side service! This of course is making my goal so much easier..

What helps this goal though, is another goal of mine, which is to eventually turn just about all reusable items and materials, into some sort of usable treasure or good of some sort.

I found a couple of helpful pages on the Internet today with instructions on how to make my own recycled paper!!

It looks relatively straightforward and easy to do. This should help greatly with my quest to recycle everything and waste nothing.

Trust me, I have a long way to go. A lot of times it’s just too easy to not bother with things. But I figure with more creativity and craftiness, I’ll start to see other uses for things. That’s the biggest challenge!

But having my own custom paper will be a blast. And cheap!!

Recycle everything in so many words also means not throwing things away. So one of the things I decided to start doing is take inventory of my food stock.

My goal is to have all my pantry and freezer items in a spreadsheet so that I can easily plan meals around them. It makes for a more efficient use of my food and reduces waste.

I’ve also been keeping a separate list for the fridge (as things tend to go faster in the fridge), so I just keep that list on the outside of the fridge door. I also write the date the item should be used by.

This helped a good deal yesterday as I was able to choose sandwiches, vegan potato salad and kale as dinner instead of the oriental dish I was toying with making.

As a result, I was able to save the bunch of kale that was in the fridge. It wasn’t bad, but I could tell that if I was going to wait too much longer that I’d probably have to toss it. No tossing required! yaye