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May 21, 2007
It's Not Easy Being Green
I'm not exactly a tree-hugging hippie, or anything, but I do strongly believe in minimizing waste and treading lightly on the planet whenever possible. My parents had a compost pile for as long as I can remember - and so from the time Dawnise and I moved into a house (composting in condo is tricky) so have we. We recently replaced all the lights in the house that aren't on dimmers with compact fluorescents. We recycle aluminium, glass and cardboard/paper.
But I have no idea what to do about Styrofoam.
I hate the stuff - and we seem to end up sequestering an unreasonable amount of it in our garage.
Packing peanuts are easy - we have a UPS Store a couple miles from the house that will re-use them, provided they're clean and in good condition (read: not crushed or crumbled), but molded styro is becoming a serious problem.
We recently installed two sets of Westinghouse-branded solar garden lights - one set was packed in cardboard - so when I was done, I collapsed the packaging and recycled it through the city.
The second kit - purchased a couple months later - was packed in molded styro - so now I have a couple cubic feet more of this stuff to try and dispose of.
Grumble.
Posted by dberger at May 21, 2007 12:10 PM
Comments
Post your solution to this one -- Heidi and I have struggled for years on how to deal with it.
Posted by: Steve S. at May 22, 2007 8:48 AM