An Effort in Green

Sorry for the delay on this one. I started my last term at the University of Manitoba on Thursday, so I've been a bit busy. After December I'll be done, but until then, my scheduling could be a bit wonky. So please bear with me!


Recyclable Items (3)

• 1 sour cream container (PP 5)
• 1 soy milk carton (plastic spout and lid)
• 1 seal from CO₂ canister (LDPE 4)

Non-Recyclable Items (20):

• 1 mint wrapper
• 1 toothpaste tube
• 1 rigatoni bag
• 1 piece of plastic wrap
• 1 veggie burger package
• 1 cheese slice wrapper
• 1 straw
• 1 spoon
• 1 soy milk seal
• 1 apple filling packet from apple turnovers (not pictured)
• 1 icing packet from apple turnovers
• 1 pill package
• 4 pieces of plastic from SodaStream packaging
• 1 wrapper from SodaStream sample pack
• 3 seals from SodaStream

Total Items: 23

So, this was my worst week since January! Therefore, I figure I should point out all the points where I went wrong, or where I simply got unlucky with the amount of plastic coming my way.

• I bought a SodaStream. Which is awesome. But it came wrapped in a fair bit of plastic. I'll be writing a full post on the SodaStream soon, in which I'll talk more about the packaging, and about how cool the SodaStream is.
• The veggie burgers I normally eat aren't wrapped in plastic. The veggie burger package and cheese slice wrapper are from a BBQ I went to at a friend's house. You can't really be picky about packaging when a meat-eating friend is kindly making you a veggie burger. :)
• I went to the BDI (an ice cream place, for you non-Winnipeggers), and got a milkshake-type thing, and they gave me a spoon and a straw! I'd forgotten to bring a spoon, so I was expecting that, but a straw, too? Ridiculous.
• The plastic wrap was from a sandwich, at a place that had previously given me a sandwich wrapped in tin foil, but this time used plastic! I was rather disappointed.

So overall, I had a lot of bad luck last week! Hopefully it won't happen again.