A Quick Look At Bathroom Garbage

We've been talking about trash a bit lately, so I wanted to show you the way we organized the bathrooms this weekend!

We bought 3 brown, bendy baskets for recyclables, for use in our three bathrooms! Each basket was $1.50 at Daiso, and they had plenty of other colors to choose from, brown was the most neutral. We now have two waste baskets in each bathroom, one for garbage and one for recycle in order to help keep our garbage output low... Remember how I said we were going to make “one whole step!” ? Well, we made 2!!! We are now down to the Once-a-month 32gal garbage pickup starting next week! We are using our own container, and the savings from stepping down from 32gal weekly plus rental covers both the new garbage can we bought, and the little waste baskets in just one month's time!

The "Bendable" Nature Allows For Squeezing Into Small Spaces

The Big Black One Used To Be For Dirty Diapers, Now It's Our Burnables!

We are following Cass's advice on keeping a “burnables” receptacle, which keeps things like wrapping paper that has a foil side that can't be recycled, but really shouldn't be thrown away either!

Now, each week we are only using ¼ of a garbage bag for actual garbage, which leaves wiggle room for birthdays, holidays, buying new things in non-recyclable containers, etc.

REMEMBER: YOU HAVE 2 MORE DAYS TO ENTER INTO THE DIAPER CONTEST!!! The switch from disposable to cloth will dramatically reduce your garbage output, but of course, the switch from diapers to Elimination Communication will reduce your output and energy consumption even more!!!

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