Plans for today (2023)
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I need to go to COSTCO today and stock up on Kleenex and TP. I know I'll end up buying other things not on my list. That is a COSTCO tradition.
I also need to drop something at the post office. What could it be?
CD
Done and done. And, I didn't buy anything at COSTCO that was not on my list.
CD
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Linner out 
Bingo
Can you tell which was the last number that I needed to win?
Bingo
Can you tell which was the last number that I needed to win?
Even with our almost annual droughts, we never get to the point where we have to limit our flushes. The Eastern side of Texas has so many man-made lakes/reservoirs, that at the most, we have to turn our yard sprinkler systems off for a while, and avoid things like washing our cars with a garden hose (commercial car washes filter and recycle most of their water). We don't draw any of our water from underground aquifers.
Toilets are generally 1 gallon per flush here, per building code.
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rascal
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Okay, apparently a cistern in NZ is totally different from a cistern in the US.
CD
I need to giggle it now.
Russ
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Ok I get it now. The old days eh?
My grandfather prolly used that system. Hell they had an outside long drop in mid 60s.
Russ
My grandfather prolly used that system. Hell they had an outside long drop in mid 60s.
Russ
Yeah, a cistern here refers to a water storage tank that usually collects rainwater to be used as drinking water. You don't want to wee in that.
CD
rascal
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Yeah, a cistern here refers to a water storage tank that usually collects rainwater to be used as drinking water. You don't want to wee in that.
CD
A friend of a friend 20 years ago asked me to take his British mate to the west coast. He asked me to stop near the top where he got out and went and drank from a fresh water stream. Came back and said that's the best water ever. Some dead bird could have been upstream. I never said anything. Lol
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I can't imagine every 2-3 weeks. The smell. The maggots!I don't make a lot of waste... except when I eat too much fatty food. That's probably TMI.
Seriously, I roll my trash and recycling carts to the curb every two to three weeks, while almost all my neighbors roll full carts out every week.
CD
Craig puts out trash twice a week because of the above. There might be only 2-3 grocery size bags of trash in the can, but it's just ewww not to.
We use the plastic grocery bags as garbage bags since it's just the 2 of us and we don't cook as much, consequently don't have as much garbage. It's cheaper and better for environment. A full grocery bag of garbage is a lot less use of plastic than a 13 gallon kitchen garbage bag since we take out every couple of days on average.
As long as I keep the lid closed when I'm not putting something it the trash cart, there is no smell issue. And, the stuff in the recycling cart is clean, so it can go for a month or more without smelling at all. I do use good trash bags, and tie them shut. No bags needed for the recycling -- in fact, they prefer that you don't bag your recyclables. It makes sorting easier down the line.
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Herbaceous
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As someone whose career is sustainability, you’re all correct about recycling. Whether something is accepted for recycling in a particular area has very little to do with whether the item actually can physically be recycled. It has everything to do with whether there’s a buyer for it, and furthermore, prices for that item. Recycling is like everything else in this world: it’s driven by economics.
Metals generally are valuable enough, and easy enough to physically recycle, that they are recycled at pretty high rates. Glass isn’t as valuable, but is fairly easy to recycle. Both glass and metal can be recycled an infinite numbet of times without losing quality. Paper can only be recycled around 7 times before the fibers get too short to hold together.
Plastic is very problematic, because there’s so many different types of resin, and they all act differently when you try to recycle them. Plastic (especially mixed loads of various types) also had less value. Most plastics get recycled into things like plastic lumber and park benches, instead of things like new plastic bottles.
There are changes on the horizon for recycling for sure; Ontario has brought in Extended Producer Responsibility legislation, which means that producers will be responsible (including financially) for the products that they put into the market. It’s a giant pain in the rear, but hopefully will eventually result in standardization of what can be recycled curbside province-wide snd incentivize producers to produce less packaging in general.
There’s my rant; hope you’re all still awake! I can talk for a very long time about waste & recycling to anyone who will listen!
Metals generally are valuable enough, and easy enough to physically recycle, that they are recycled at pretty high rates. Glass isn’t as valuable, but is fairly easy to recycle. Both glass and metal can be recycled an infinite numbet of times without losing quality. Paper can only be recycled around 7 times before the fibers get too short to hold together.
Plastic is very problematic, because there’s so many different types of resin, and they all act differently when you try to recycle them. Plastic (especially mixed loads of various types) also had less value. Most plastics get recycled into things like plastic lumber and park benches, instead of things like new plastic bottles.
There are changes on the horizon for recycling for sure; Ontario has brought in Extended Producer Responsibility legislation, which means that producers will be responsible (including financially) for the products that they put into the market. It’s a giant pain in the rear, but hopefully will eventually result in standardization of what can be recycled curbside province-wide snd incentivize producers to produce less packaging in general.
There’s my rant; hope you’re all still awake! I can talk for a very long time about waste & recycling to anyone who will listen!
That is commendable.
Going into Costco and only buying what you intended to buy: that merits a Nobel Prize for Economics!
Same here, it's very uncommon to find a toilet that doesn't have a dual flush.
I'm with you regarding not needing to flush after number 1 (but how did this forum become so scatologic?!
Plans for today....
Have to rush into town to buy olive oil, cardamom, cloves, mustard powder, then rush back home again to make some Rocoto Jelly (for those of you who don't know, rocoto is a large chile, called rocoto in Perú, manzano in Mexico and mongo in Venezuela!). I'm probably going to do some pesto as well.
Have to rush into town to buy olive oil, cardamom, cloves, mustard powder, then rush back home again to make some Rocoto Jelly (for those of you who don't know, rocoto is a large chile, called rocoto in Perú, manzano in Mexico and mongo in Venezuela!). I'm probably going to do some pesto as well.