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… Day 8 Trash ..

It was just such a bad trash day that I couldn’t ignore Day 8.

Also my dad, who sits on a big eco-friendly recycling board, wants me to clarify that polystyrene (not “styrofoam” as I called it, which is a trade name) is indeed recyclable and the issue is that London will not recycle it (but Toronto does).  He says the foam recycling process is high-energy but emission free, and in many ways ecologically friendlier than plastic recycling.

Here goes (sob): (the sob is for my trash and my food intake):

2 tim hortons cups (didn’t drink the second one, even)
2 tim hortons bags
1 starbucks cup
1 ziplock
1 granola bar wrapper
1 bandaid
1 aquafina bottle again (didn’t even recycle, lost it somewhere)
1 straw wrapper, 1 straw!
1 beef jerky bag (protein).
1 wine bottle (shared, recycled).
[medical trash!!]

Day 7 Trash

1 tim hortons cup
[medical trash like usual]

Day 4 Trash

1 tim hortons cup (again), 1 tim horton’s bag (again!)
1 starbucks receipt (I used my own mug finally, but still had 2 coffees today)
small yogurt container
styrofoam box and grocery-store veggie-style plastic bag

Day 2 Trash

1 tim hortons paper bag
1 potato chip bag
several paper receipts

today was fairly minimal on the trash side of things but still significant if I were to produce that amount everyday.  It seems like I’m revealing something scary about my current surgery rotation diet through this exercise.

The Trash I Create – Day 1 Trash

Day One:

1 tim hortons cup
1 aquafina water bottle
1 pita pit paper wrapper
2 ziplock bags (potentially to be reused)
1 large styrofoam cup
[a bunch of medical garbage, wrappers etc, in ER]
*this is a one week experiment where I will examine the daily footprint I make on our world landfills*