“So my challenge to you is to choose three items or actions that you currently have in your life that you’ll modify or give up completely.” from Rhonda’s Blog.
I couldn’t choose 3 from the top five personal waste items list, so have come up with my own challenges…
My gifts for 2008 and beyond are:
1. Remember my re-usable shopping bags, and to make or buy some vegie bags like Mummabare’s or these.
2. Less Garbage: Reduce the amount of packaged foods eaten - jars and tins mainly - so that we’re producing less ‘recycling’. We’re currently lasting a month between dump trips (we take our own refuse to the Waste Transfer Station), but perhaps we could last 5 or 6 weeks instead?
3. Standby Power: switch off appliances at the wall when not in use. I’ve tried to implement this at home, but we still have little LEDs scattered around the place most nights - so room to improve there!
I hope that some of you might choose three gifts for our planet too!
For the record… Four months on:
- I bought some of Mummabare’s bags
- our rubbish is going every six weeks and I’ve cut out a couple of tinned items etc.
- I’ve remembered some standby items, but can still improve on this goal
Comment by Bel — 22 June, 2008 @ 11:39 am