Mrs E is watching her waste...

and about time too some of the more orthographically challenged readers of this blog may mutter but I'll thank you to keep such thoughts to yourself...:)

No, we are talking rubbish, the stuff in the wheelie bin, the black bag going to landfill. I have listened to the call from Councillor Haley to 'reduce, reuse and recycle' and taken up the challenge to Watch My Waste!

This week has been the 'normal' week

What's a normal week?

Brownie points:
Well, we have two recycling bins and we try to recycle as much as we can, we also have a composter in the garden which takes all the vegetable matter, old egg boxes and teabags etc and we have a milk and veg box delivery which helps cut down the amount of waste generated. We also use washable nappies except for one disposable at night. To explain, the baby is a bit of a restless sleeper and his nappy kept shifting so, shame on me, I went over to the dark side and purchased some Pampers for the sake of an undisturbed night.

Bad (eco)housewife
However, the waste food caddy got hurled in the garden just before my holidays when I discovered that a leaking bag had left some nasty smells behind and somehow I just forgot to rescue it and clean it up.

Confession
Last week, to be honest, was actually far from normal as the nipperette had her 5th birthday last week and this resulted in a bit more rubbish than the E household normally generates. Still, I made sure the wrapping paper and envelopes went in the recycling bin and as much cardboard as possible was rescued from the packaging round her presents and similarly disposed of. That still left a fair bit of plastic though. I also hand on heart declare that we do not usually dispose of that many empty bottles of cava in a week (honest).

The enormous and delicious Dora the Explorer cake purchased from la Ruche also lost its appeal by the third day of cake for every dessert and so some of that went into my wheelie bin instead of my discarded food caddy.

Onward eco housewife:
At the end of the week I had two full bags of rubbish weighing 3.6 kg in total. This was mainly plastic packaging so the two main targets for me next week, apart from having one bag less, hopefully, is to find and clean up the food caddy and get some biobags (with the correct symbol of course) and try to avoid
plastic when I shop.

Something tells me it ain't gonna be easy doing that!

btw that picture above, not my bins...just the 'average' bin you see round here.