What would it take for you to really reduce your trash impact? Could you reduce your waste to less than 30.5 pounds of non-recyclable trash in a week? How about a month? Or a year?<\/p>\n
Dave Chameides did just that — creating less trash in all of 2008 than an average American family throws out in a week. And more impressively, he did this without changing his eating or lifestyle habits to drastically.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to change the way that I was living my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dave told Sustainablog<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If I wanted to drink beer, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to say, well, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find a way to drink beer without creating packaging, so therefore I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to. Instead, what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to do is look at the packaging in beer and pick the most \u00e2\u20ac\u02dceco-friendly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 way to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n He’s got several cool videos on Vimeo<\/a>, including how he composts food and junk mail<\/a> with 6-7k worms in his basement (and it only takes up roughly 1’x1′ of floor space), as well as what he carries in his bag each day to help reduce his trash impact.<\/p>\n\n In the end, Dave amassed just 30.5 pounds of non-recyclable trash. However, that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only stuff he piled up in his garage though \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dave decided to keep his recyclables for the year too, to show that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recycling isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the answer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you look at the majority of the waste that I put out there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recycling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dave says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna take energy, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to take resources, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to take all sorts of things. I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trained in the U.S. to think that recycling is the answer. But statistically, only 10% of everything that can be recycled is recycled.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Check out his Vimeo stream<\/a> or his blog sustainabledave.org<\/a> for more ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What would it take for you to really reduce your trash impact? Could you reduce your waste to less than 30.5 pounds of non-recyclable trash in a week? How about a month? Or a year? Dave Chameides did just that — creating less trash in all of 2008 than an average American family throws out … Continue reading Sustainable Dave limits trash to almost zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1838,609,1837,1839,1279],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-action","category-treehugging","tag-dave-chameides","tag-recycling","tag-sustainable-dave","tag-sustainablog","tag-trash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-17A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}