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One a day in my kitchen trash can. And I get the odor block kind. We have to store the wheelie-bins in the garage because of the wildlife. And when it's hot I don't want them stinking. Maybe 4 or 5 re-used plastic bags lining various trash baskets in the house. That's it.
At work I actually don't make much trash. Almost everything is on computer.
At home I tend to generate a lot of trash. Tin food cans, aluminum foil, plastics that all the fish I buy is wrapped in. I do 90% of my shopping online, so I have a lot of boxes and packing peanuts. I'm always working on some project, for example I built some fiberglass speaker boxes which made a ton of trash, then I set up an aquarium (all products shipped to my home) more trash and currently I'm piecing together a computer.
By large I mis-spoke, I meant full size home bags. I think 13 gallon size.
Indeed, ordering from Part Express creates a huge amount of packaging material. Fortunately my city includes that in its weekly recycling pick-up. I also load all the phonebooks that are left on my front porch in those boxes for easy disposal.
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Maybe 1-2 kitchen trash bags a week, 1-2 Grocery bags. We normally take our own bag but sometimes get a little more than will fit. Most shopping is at Costco and there we just pack it all into the back of the truck.
I use about 50 plastic bags a week. Every waste can has one, I use a 55 gallon drum liner every day for kitchen garbage and the litter box gets about 4 a week (it is self cleaning or it would be about 20 a week). Now if you count ziplock refrigerator and freezer bags I guess that would be another 10 or so. And, a ziplock one gallon freezer bag has about as much PVC as 20 grocery store bags. I also use about 10 plastic disposable bathroom water cups a week. And, maybe ten store purchases. So I am assuming that I use about as much plastic as everyone on here combined. I do have some of those black reusable grocery bags so I don't really get any of those grocery bags. I don't see any way I could use less plastic bags.
OMG well boy do I feel green. Not that it matters, since other people use so much plastic. I use 1 kitchen sized bag a week for garbage, and maybe 2 regular-sized plastic bags a month. At my supermarket, they only give paper bags, so I put my recycling in those, and occasionally use them in the garden.
I use all-cotton feminine products, and I'm almost crazy enough to start composting those, too. I can't imagine what I would do if I had an infant. They're messy, so I guess I'd pretty much have to use pampers or something...or quit working just keep the nappies changed regularly.
I think people would use more biodegradable items if plastic were simply unavailable..but it's so inexpensive who knows when that will happen?
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