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re: Food packaging & trash
Posted on 8/31/19 at 2:53 pm to lsufan_26
Posted on 8/31/19 at 2:53 pm to lsufan_26
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Yep but at least I'm trying. I'm not the shitty person in the recycling epidemic and am doing my part, so I feel slightly better about myself.
Exhibit A
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Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:23 pm to fallguy_1978
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I like mine on ice.
Make sure to rinse it first.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:24 pm to holmesbr
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Make sure to rinse it first.
there's an O-t throwback
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:42 pm to lsufan_26
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Yep but at least I'm trying. I'm not the shitty person in the recycling epidemic and am doing my part, so I feel slightly better about myself.
That’s kind of the point. People like you were sold on the idea that what goes in the green bin gets recycled. But it doesn’t happen. Those items were just being sold as a commodity and ended up in China where it gets dumped, burned, turned into marine debris or possibly, maybe recycled. Just the fuel involved in trucking and shipping that stuff around the globe offsets any type of environmental benefit promised by the recycling companies.
In reality your probably being more environmentally conscious by just throwing it away.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:44 pm to ElRoos
Get a bigger trash can or roll over the spent food containers with your car.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:44 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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A lot of recycling is pointless but it makes people feel good.
Until china stopped importing our recycling, the system worked fairly well and much of what china imported was recycled. But the biggest thing recycling does, or did, is keep that trash out of our landfills which have limited capacity. In DFW, many of our landfills are at capacity and will have to be retired soon. That means our trash will need to be trucked further out from the city which will costs all of us more $$$$. A few years ago I worked on master plans for what to do with these retired landfills and learned about the problems DFW is going to have to address in the near future.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:51 pm to Zappas Stache
quote:Dallas fills then empties Jerry world with trash 8 weekends a year
In DFW, many of our landfills are at capacity and will have to be retired soon. That means our trash will need to be trucked further out from the city which will costs all of us more $$$$.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:55 pm to SuperSaint
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Dallas fills then empties Jerry world with trash 8 weekends a year
:rimshot:
You should've seen all the Aubie trash at the bars last night.This post was edited on 8/31/19 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 8/31/19 at 10:30 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Get a trash compacter. The last house I bought had one. Didn't see it as a selling point and figured it would break soon since it was about 30 years old. I was completely wrong. That thing would smash the shite out of anything but glass. Reduced my trips to the outdoor can by at least 75%.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 10:36 pm to Eli Goldfinger
You sound like you eat out a lot/eat a lot of frozen, pre-prepared foods
Posted on 8/31/19 at 10:55 pm to Eli Goldfinger
We don't eat processed food but still take out a bag or a bit more per day. The garbage company gave us two of those huge rolling cans. Fill about one and a half per week. Doesn't bother me.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 8:34 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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You sound like you eat out a lot/eat a lot of frozen, pre-prepared foods
Actually...no.
We usually cook a meal and have it for 2-3 days.
The largest items are juice jugs (kids) and milk jugs.
Then there are things like plastic strawberry containers, bean/tomato cans, jars, etc...
It all adds up to more than seems necessary.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 8:41 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Thats 9 bags of trash per week. My Fiance and I (half of your family) usually put 2 bags of trash in the trashcan each week. You must buy a lot of fattening packaged foods. I suggest you eat healthier and stop filling the trash with coke cans and poptart boxes
Posted on 9/1/19 at 8:45 pm to Eli Goldfinger
If this is what you are losing sleep over, feel blessed my son. You are in the teeny tiny percentage of people who doesnt have actual shite to worry about.
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