Less Waste

Kermit Villa Borghese
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I signed up for a cool new service that monitors and removes your name from mailing lists and plants trees. I despise junk mail and I like trees = perfect!

It's my experience that change (big change or little change) begins where you are at this moment with what you have in front of you.

I'm starting with junk mail.

I don't like reckless waste - it makes me cranky. Plastic grocery bags and all of the packaging on the products we buy disturbs me. Lately I've started declining bags at the grocery, drug, and craft stores when I go in to buy one or two items I can easily put in my purse (and whoo-boy you wouldn't believe the looks I get from cashiers when I do this). I keep forgetting to put my canvas bags in the car, but aspire to bagging everything in my own reusable bags. I'm not doing this because I think it will "save the planet" necessarily, but because I want to reduce unnecessary waste. If it happens to be good for the environment, that's swell.

Back to the junk mail.

In the last week the Peregrine Household received over 5 pounds of junk mail. I don't know the exact amount because my scale doesn't read past 5 pounds. 5 pounds a week x 52 weeks in a year = 260 pounds of junk mail waste in a year.

*blink blink blink*

Wow.

Signing up for Greendimes this morning was easy (their server was kind of slow which was annoying, but maybe they had a lot of traffic). Not only was it easy, it was cheap; I signed up for less than $20. For the service they provide, that, my friends, is a steal.

They say it takes about 3 months to see results. I'll check back in and let you know how it's working.

*Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this company nor being compensated for writing about it. That goes for anything I write about here.*

Day Fifteen: NaBloPoMo

Comments

[Sanjiv]

GreenDimes here,

Love the Kermit pic. Hey, thanks for mentioning us. We really appreciate it. Yeah, I keep forgetting the reusable bags to, so I just bought a bunch that I keep in my car.

[tamy]

j
came home from being away for 10 days and had about 20 christmas catalogues here waiting for me which all went into our recycling bin unread. signed up as soon as I saw this. thank you for sharing!!

[~tracey]

good for you gal!

every little thing you/we do counts! i think.

♥♥

[Cassie]

I'm going to have to sign up for that. I may even give it as a Christmas gift. My grandmother was complaining to me yesterday that she receives gets 8-10 catalogs a week. I bet she would love it. Thanks for posting this!