Week of Trash

So for the past 7 days I have kept all the items that I would have thrown out or recycled to see what I contribute to the landfills.....Minus all the gross stuff like food scraps (which if I had a compose I would put there, but I don't)....

* 1 plastic to-go box...LANDFILL

* 1 plastic water bottle...RECYCLE

* 1 plastic perfume bottle...LANDFILL

* 1 cardboard box of candy...RECYCLE

* 3 plastic chocolate bar wrappers...LANDFILL

* 1 plastic smoothie drink bottle...RECYCLE

* 1 cardboard roll from toilet paper...RECYCLE

* 1 Capri Sun drink container....RECYCLE (schools take and collect them)

* 12 Coke bottle tops...RECYCLE

* 1 plastic bag with dental flosses...LANDFILL

* 1 plastic bag with fish...LANDFILL

* 1 Coke can...RECYCLE (schools take and collect them)

* Newspaper ads...RECYCLE

* 1 cardboard envelope...RECYCLE

* 3 sheets of computer paper...RECYCLE

* 1 small Sun Chips bag...LANDFILL

* 3 piece of cardboard...RECYCLE

* 1 bag of sugar...RECYCLE

* 1 torn plastic bag...LANDFILL (usually use them for other things, but this was torn)

* 2 old reusable plastic cups...LANDFILL (they had reached the end of their life span)

* 2 plastic bag-like containers...LANDFILL

* 1 plastic bread bag...LANDFILL 

RECYCLE = 12

LANDFILL = 10

The good thing about where I live is that my apartment complex was the first one to spark the movement of recycling.  We actually have a recycling complex behind my apartment complex.  Sadly, though we can't recycle glass at my complex so instead we have to throw it away.  Recycling is free for us at the apartment, which makes recycling even easier.  Back at my parents house they would have to pay to recycle, so they don't.  And I notice all the things they throw away that could be recycled.  It's horrible!!!

One thing I wish my apartment complex did was have a community compose pile.  At my parents house they do, but they don't really use it to it's full extent.  Most of the time they just throw all their food scraps away in the trash because they don't want to have to take it outside to dispose of it.