Wind, Rain and Recycling

There was a lot of wind this morning and then the rain started so I stayed indoors today. 

Our subject today is recycling.  Depending on where you live there are many items that can be recycled.

Since I have restructured how we handle our garbage here at my house I have been able to reduce our "garbage" greatly.  With composting and recycling I have been able to cut our "garbage" in half.  The "garbage" I am referring to is anything we get rid of that can't be composted or recycled.  

Here, we can recycle many plastics, glass, newsprint, phone-books, tin cans, aluminum cans, batteries and brown paper bags.  In our "green" bin we are able to have sticks, twigs, food scraps, egg cartons, pizza boxes and many more items sent to a large composting site.  Vegetable and fruit scraps go into our worm bin.  Hazardous waste items can be dropped off at a designated place for free - saving garbage space and making sure they don't end up in our drinking water as we live directly over our aquifer.  E-cycling is huge - dropping off electronic devices for free!  I also only bag my grass clippings when I need some greens for my compost pile - otherwise, my mulching mower makes free fertilizer for my lawn.

I have already put my home made compost in my vegetable garden and have made compost tea that I have sprayed on every plant in my yard.  I am anxiously awaiting the worm compost - I'm sure it will be well worth the wait.

So the good we see here is multi-fold.  We are saving money on disposal costs - saving money on fertilizer costs - growing a completely organic garden - saving money on organic produce - reducing the garbage sent to be incinerated - recycling everything we can to reduce packaging costs - our "footprints" are shrinking - the list just seems to go on and on.  I can't see any downsides to this at all.  My husband doesn't have to think about what goes where, I have told him to leave anything in question on the counter and I will take care of it.

 

Look into recycling where you live - you just might be surprised how easy, effective and cost saving it can be for very little effort on your part.