Apart from working on a new blog for the Horton Farmer's Market here in St. Thomas, and planning the design of one for our friends at McSmith's Organic Farm, I've given myself a blog challenge;I wont throw out a piece of plastic until I know I can't recycle it.
And then post a list so I'll never have to research that item again.
Like the thing that holds a 6 pack together, or a potato chip bag. Or how about the plastic my new underwear is sold in, or all the wrapping containing my PC tea, other than the box? My tofu container, coffee tin seal, resealable bag of peanuts, and the bag containing my cereal in the box.
Seems simple, but it wasn't until I starting looking for it did I realize most of the plastic leaving our home isn't labeled with a recycling code which is another disappointing realization, hot on the footsteps of "most blue box items go to landfill".
So it's better to be informed and a little disappointed, than to be naive and in ignorant bliss. I've begun asking manufacturers to provide me with either the plastic code, or the plastic type. I'm also asking why, with so much labeling, promotion and information on packaging, they aren't provide consumers with the info we need to properly dispose of their often excessive packaging.
Oh, and did I mention a group of us at work are creating a long-overdue Environmental Committee?
1 comment:
The work that went into gathering this information boggles my mind! It's so great! Thank you Neil! But I am so frustrated to think that most of what we put into the blue bins goes into landfill. How do you know this?
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