On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:07:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> wrote in message
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>> On Saturday, October 11, 2014 8:13:32 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
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>>> I just realized that we don't generate much. I don't use my garbage
>>> disposal very much. We don't compost, so coffee grounds and food
>>> trimmings go into the (covered) garbage can and yet, we generate only
>>> one bag of waste per week... which turns into more like half a bag
>>> when it's taken out of the trash can to go to the trash bin, so we
>>> empty the trash baskets in the den, bedrooms and bathrooms in there
>>> too. We didn't eat out at all last week and still didn't generate
>>> enough garbage to make emptying the kitchen trash worthwhile.
>>
>> Depends on whether one of us has a cold or not. I took out a bale of used
>> kleenex last week.
>>
>> We ditched the 13 gallon tall kitchen bags, because the kitchen garbage
>> can
>> stank long before the bag filled. Now we switched to 8 gallon Glad bags
>> (generics aren't tough enough), and change them midweek, whether full or
>> not.
>>
>> We did compost our vegetable waste for years, but then lost interest.
>>
>>> Is reducing your
>>> carbon footprint a normal part of getting "older"?
>>
>> We don't cook much out of boxes, jars, and cans any more. Not so many
>> catalogs come; we're down to three magazines and one newspaper -- which
>> is itself shrinking.
>
>I really wish I could cut down on the junk snail mail. Besides the cans,
>that really is the bulk of my recycling. Every day I go through the mail
>and it almost all goes into the bin straight away.

I get mail at my PO Box, junk mail never comes home... I tear up my
name and address and toss it in their bin... of late there are tons of
political propaganda, I don't read any.