The Week Following Christmas

[Roselvr]

Originally Posted by TamaraSavannah

The week following Christmas? You mean after January 5, 2019?

I believe they're talking about people who's trash gets picked up right after Christmas.

My street was unbelievable. I have neighbors with adult kids who's trash bins were over flowing. We're a family of 4 adults; one 5 year old and one almost 2 that's here every morning before day care and every other weekend. We barely even make trash and I'm pretty proud of it. We compost whatever we can and try to eat all of the food that's made. It's rare we throw old food out.

I wish they'd mandate recyclable packaging for toys whether it's made from recyclable plastic or they go back to boxes. Even with 2 kids getting toys we didn't make as much trash as most of my neighbors. I always wonder how they make so much trash.

[guidoLaMoto]

Originally Posted by Roselvr

I believe they're talking about people who's trash gets picked up right after Christmas.

My street was unbelievable. I have neighbors with adult kids who's trash bins were over flowing. We're a family of 4 adults; one 5 year old and one almost 2 that's here every morning before day care and every other weekend. We barely even make trash and I'm pretty proud of it. We compost whatever we can and try to eat all of the food that's made. It's rare we throw old food out.

I wish they'd mandate recyclable packaging for toys whether it's made from recyclable plastic or they go back to boxes. Even with 2 kids getting toys we didn't make as much trash as most of my neighbors. I always wonder how they make so much trash.

All of our trash consists of packaging material. Food scraps makes their way to the manure pile after being processed by a chicken, goat or pig first.


Prior to about 1960, hardly any non-food merchandise came packaged, except for wood, then cardboard shipping crates containing several items to be sold right out of the crate or piled loose in bins on store counters and shelves. But in those days, merchandise was wood or metal and you needed a sledge to break them.


Now everything is cheap, flimsy plastic & often delicate electronics and requires Styrofoam protection so it won't get demolished in shipping.

[NARFALICIOUS]

Originally Posted by donsabi

I Some dead Christmas trees will be recycled into mulch, etc,. but many more will pile up in the dumps. .

People continue to romanticize having a "real" tree.

Silly.

[guidoLaMoto]

Originally Posted by NARFALICIOUS

People continue to romanticize having a "real" tree.

Silly.

It's traditional, connecting them to their living families & previous generations thru the years and their cultures. They're entitled to their belief system.


Please document your statement that it's silly in any way.