Comments on: The Trash she carried: Pasadena woman pledges to tote garbage http://greenlagirl.com/the-trash-she-carried-pasadena-woman-pledges-to-tote-garbage/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Beth Terry http://greenlagirl.com/the-trash-she-carried-pasadena-woman-pledges-to-tote-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-126213 Beth Terry Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:47:11 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2007/09/21/the-trash-she-carried-pasadena-woman-pledges-to-tote-garbage/#comment-126213 If you compost your food waste, you might be surprised how easy it is to haul around your trash. It seems like L.A. accepts every kind of plastic container for recycling, so you're just left with used paper products like napkins and maybe some wrappers. Doing the trash challenge finally got me carrying my own cloth napkin today (actually a bandana.) However, you have to be careful what other people bring you. I got through almost the whole day today with only 2 tiny pieces of trash, and then some friends came over and brought a cake in a big plastic container, the bottom of which is not recyclable anywhere near me. So I'm going to have to upgrade to a bigger trash bag. If you compost your food waste, you might be surprised how easy it is to haul around your trash. It seems like L.A. accepts every kind of plastic container for recycling, so you’re just left with used paper products like napkins and maybe some wrappers. Doing the trash challenge finally got me carrying my own cloth napkin today (actually a bandana.)

However, you have to be careful what other people bring you. I got through almost the whole day today with only 2 tiny pieces of trash, and then some friends came over and brought a cake in a big plastic container, the bottom of which is not recyclable anywhere near me. So I’m going to have to upgrade to a bigger trash bag.

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