Week 8 and all is well :)

The Racoons got into the garbage last night but no free lunch once more. Since March 1st, there is a lightbulb from our fridge, moldy bread, lots of dust bunnies, hair from buzzcuts, a poopy diaper from my neice and some broken pieces off some toys that were swept up.

On a cool note!

Q92.7's Terry and Mel interviewed Chantal on Eatth Day about our challange at first the were grossed out about the whole worm thing, but with a bit of explanation, they thought it was really cool. The interview was played throughout the day and was added every news break, they called us heros of Earth Day, if being a hero is this easy, why wouldnt everyone do it? or at least try.

It is Now April 11th, there has been 6 weeks of no Roadside garbage.
All is going well, Our worm bin isnt big enough now, we started with a pound of worms, I would bet there is 4 pounds of worms now and at least 20 pounds of worm castings.

We have not put any garbage roadside, we really haven't curbed our food consumption, or changed our lifestyle, all we have done is closed the lid on the garbage can and have to figure out what do with it, in most cases it means simply putting it in the recycling bin. being a bit more responsible with packaging, containers for the kids lunches,, if we do send stuff with wrappers to school the kids bring them home for recycling... We Reuse alot more now as well, margarine tubs for lunches, bread bags for lunches, rather than recycling them right away, get a few more uses out of them. those are just a couple examples.

Today. the garbage truck, which has bypassed our house for the last 5 weeks, decides to stop, and pick up our large blue box, and dump the contents into the back of the garbage truck, the small recycling boxes were left, so perhaps this garbage man was colourblind. or hopefully he put it into the recycling side of the compactor, but if he did, why would he have left the smaller bins..

Our Printer cartridges get refilled or disposed of at the Kiosk in the mall, We now look at labels, try to buy local as much as possible.

The whole paper making idea, was a great idea , but a messy long process, it was fun the first couple times. we will continue to do it, but at more of a leisure pursuit. The worms deal with flyers just fine.. Not only are we saving space in the landfill. It actually feels good to not contribute to it.. The kids refer to me as the Recycleing King