Trash Day!

[stinkyattic]

It's Thursday, and Thursday is Trash Day at the Stinky Shack. I LOVE trash day for reasons both symbolic and practical. The practical is that I'm not tripping over recycling any more. The symbolics is clearing out the clutter from my life in general, not just what's piled in the kitchen. One of my goals this year is de-cluttering my life. I'm a disorganized person, and smoking makes me even more so. I get creative and try to build things or make little projects, and this always results in scraps of wood, cloth, string, beads, perlite, plant clippings, papers, writing implements, tools, drill bits -the list goes on- on every flat surface. And on Trash Day I clean that stuff up.

Does anyone else love getting rid of rubbish as much as I do?

BTW I'm the recycling queen. My trash this week consists of 2- 36qt bins of bottles and csns, 1 of paper and cardboard, and one of general kitchen rubbish, and that's 2 full weeks' worth!

stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on 11-01-2007. Trash Day! It's Thursday, and Thursday is Trash Day at the Stinky Shack. I LOVE trash day for reasons both symbolic and practical. The practical is that I'm not tripping over recycling any more. The symbolics is clearing out the clutter from my life in general, not just what's piled in the kitchen. One of my goals this year is de-cluttering my life. I'm a disorganized person, and smoking makes me even more so. I get creative and try to build things or make little projects, and this always results in Rating: 5

[cutecalikitty]

Tuesday is trash day for us ... we recently moved into a new house, so there was quite a bit of trash stacked up in our garage. We manage to donate all the electronics stuff, which cleared out alot more then I expected. Between recycling and restricting the family's food consumption, we have managed to clear out pretty much everything, plus have a nice full recycling container on the curb each week..

ut oh, I may have forgotten to feed the family last night .. I better go check on them

[qdavid]

When we lived in Germany, we had to recycle absolutely everything. Even table scraps, for compost. I never did that though cause it just stank. But by the end of the week you might have left like half of a paper-bag full of stuff you couldn't recycle. Usually less. And it wasn't hard at all once you got used to it. But where I am in Florida, they do none. And even if I tried to do it myself, these redneck yahoos would say, "What's that"? That have absolutely no provisions for recycling dry cell batteries. I still save all my used ones. They're just a hazard. Even when I took a bunch to the landfill they didn't know what to do. Someday they'll say, "Shit, we shoulda done that. Now we're screwed".

[Nightcrewman]

Up on the farm we have to cart rubbish half a mile to the main road as the bin men don't come up to the house so we tend to burn as much rubbish as possible and I love bonfires.
Getting rid of rubbish is a chore and in the UK it costs us a fortune, but de cluttering is a good thing we could all do with a little less rubish in our lives.
Cutecalikitty's idea seems a good one though, I can imagine the scenario round the kitchen table at mealtimes,we are going to save the planet, cut down on rubbish so we are not eating tonight LOL think of the saving on grocery bills.

cheers

NCM

[4osiris]

It's Thursday, and Thursday is Trash Day at the Stinky Shack. I LOVE trash day for reasons both symbolic and practical. The practical is that I'm not tripping over recycling any more. The symbolics is clearing out the clutter from my life in general, not just what's piled in the kitchen. One of my goals this year is de-cluttering my life. I'm a disorganized person, and smoking makes me even more so. I get creative and try to build things or make little projects, and this always results in scraps of wood, cloth, string, beads, perlite, plant clippings, papers, writing implements, tools, drill bits -the list goes on- on every flat surface. And on Trash Day I clean that stuff up.

Does anyone else love getting rid of rubbish as much as I do?

BTW I'm the recycling queen. My trash this week consists of 2- 36qt bins of bottles and csns, 1 of paper and cardboard, and one of general kitchen rubbish, and that's 2 full weeks' worth!

That's understandable, stinky. I just walked out four bags(trash)to the treelawn. I wish I could apply these measures to my reality also. Thank's for the inspirational seed, lol.

[qdavid]

Crap, now you got me on a damn soapbox. Really, it's probably this damned coffee.
Right after high school I went to the New York State College of Environmental Studies at Syracuse University. Man that's a mouthful for such a small place. They were talking back then that one of the biggest challenges to the environment in the future would be depletion of the wetlands. Largely because so many unique species live in them. They are building a huge-ass airport right in a swamp. Almost 30 years after they were talking how that was bad. Huh?
I don't know how many people actually read that article in yesterday's USA Today about mercury levels. But it points exactly to how our former oilman pro-big business/money/power president has taken us. Mercury levels in the environment actually increased from 2000-2005. We've known for a long time that shit is bad. Why do we shit where we eat? Cause profits get hurt. Profits don't mean much to dead people. We just gotta quit raping mother earth. We're just killing ourselves.

[stinkyattic]

qdavid, is there any room on that soap box so I can hop up there too?
My degree is through my state school's college of environmental sciences as well. I don't want to get into specifics, or what my major was, but I've done work in fish tissue and sediment sampling for mercury and other heavy metals, and coordinated an acid rain monitoring program for a while. Shit where we eat is right. Next time you are in a city on a nice summer day, go drive around until you find a bridge or park or any sort of water access, and see how many immigrants are standing there fishing. They're there getting protein for their families, and those fish are LOADED with mercury, which is linked to autism and other developmental issues, and PCBs, which are linked to endocrine disruption. What are you going to do, say 'you can't eat those because of the risk of something you can't conceptualize', when the reality is, that's dinner? Wetlands for a long time were seen as useless, places to dump rubbish- you ever hear the quote, 'the solution to pollution is dilution'? It's bullshit. Shit slides down hill is more like; EVERYTHING ends up in wetlands eventually.
Okay you can have your soap box back. I'm actually affiliated with the SUNY system as a researcher now... cool!

[qdavid]

I hear you. More power to you. I gave up the environmental thing when I saw it was just an uphill losing battle and went into meteorology and then teaching. I'm really disheartened by current trends and have become pretty cynical about the whole damn shooting match. But I've nothing but respect for those who hang in. SUNY is a real good system and probably the best thing Nelsen Rockfeller ever did.
I just don't think people really understand the extent to how bad pollution really is. It could well be the one of the main causes of the huge increase in autism we see in kids. That and vaccines, and all those crappy food additives put in just so the rich get richer by making cheap crap.

[rebgirl420]

We recycle pop cans and scrap. We get back like 30 bucks a month for it.

I enjoy having a clean house. Im a clean freak. Unfortunately John doesn't keep it that way for long.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

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All my recyclable plastics go in a giant bin in the basement. When it's full, I take it to the dropbox. I compost my veggie, fruit, and hemp trimmings and soil. Yard waste that can't go in the compost heap goes in a bin and the city takes it once a week. And some random guy comes and collects all my aluminum. I also belong to The Freecycle Network.
I recently got rid of a washer, dryer, water heater, rabbit hutch, freezer, and dog crate that the former homeowners left here. Dude took it all and scrapped it. I save my glass jars for making jam and jelly, and curing weed. Junk mail is used as kindling for my backyard firepit. It's all good.