Blog: Difficult start to canning garbage

5:00AM Monday February 18, 2008

1 DOWN, 51 TO GO!

I would love to report that we got through our first week entirely rubbish-free, but alas, it wasn't to happen. Last night I went to an awesome sale at a surf shop and ended up getting a new wetsuit.

The labels are made from card, so are easily recyclable, but unfortunately attaching them to the wetsuit was one of those little plastic tag things, which is about 5cm long, 2mm wide, probably as light as a feather and it is now our first official piece of rubbish.

In many ways this first week at least has been easier than expected. The preparations for the year were somewhat demanding, but now that we are in the swing of it, it's all good. I've made muesli bars twice now and can see that soon I won't be needing the recipe. In one of the comments we were given a link to a great bread recipe.

A small challenge was when buying sandpaper (we're preparing our weatherboard house for painting) at a large home hardware store. Ducking the plastic bag they wanted to put my two rolls of sandpaper in was relatively simple, but we then had to dodge the SOLD plastic tape that they wanted to put on the items.

Still, we managed to get through unscathed and rubbishless.

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