The Zero Waste Challenge

OK, so my roomie, Miss Bliss, and I talked it over last weekend and we decided as a household to take on the zero waste challenge. Inspired by a recent article in Ascent Magazine detailing one woman's waste free odyssey, it made me think it's time to take my environmental consciousness to the next level. So I have been doing my research, which mostly consisted at re-looking at what the f**k I was throwing in the garbage, and paying a visit to the local recycling depot to have a long chat about what they accepted, and what they didn't. It turned out in this day and age you could recycle quite a bit.

Already a low waste household, about one shopping bag every 2 weeks, our little cabin here at Latimers End seemed the perfect candidate to raise the bar on sustainability. Surely we, if anyone, had a good chance of doing away with our weekly trash pick-up. Certainly we could be using the can for other things. Already I'm thinking it would be a great robust vessel to mix up manure tea for the garden in, but welcome suggestions. One day it will certainly be a blog post all it's own - 101 Things To Do With A Garbage Can: Besides Throwing Garbage In It.

In this first week already it has changed my shopping habits, and how I treat material objects, you can't just banish the non-desirables into void of the garbage can - no more out of sight out of mind with my own waste. As well I was learning a lot more about recycling, and enhancing my good old creativity genes in looking for alternatives before and after I purchase products. Anyway over the next little while I'll be blogging about our little journey here at Latimer's End and hopefully share what we learned and unlearned in the realm of waste free living.