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Being "zero waste" means that we adopt steps towards reducing personal waste and minimizing our environmental impact.

Our community places a major focus on the 5 R's: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. We practice this by reducing consumption, choosing reusable goods, recycling, composting, and helping each other improve.

We also recognize excess CO₂, other GHG emissions, and general resource usage as waste.

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Going Without Trash Bags (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by silentslinky@sh.itjust.works to c/zerowaste@lemmy.ml

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I recently stopped using trash bags so that I am, officially, a plastic bag free household. Whatever can't be composted or recyled goes directly into my trash can's removeable hard plastic insert. I put a little of my cats litter (it's just ground up walnut shells) in the bottom to keep down the smell and absorb any rogue liquids.

It's gone considerably better than I anticipated so far. Has anyone else tried eliminating trash bags? If so, how has your experience been?

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[–] silentslinky@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I take it and dump it in the dumpster for my apartment building. The nice thing is that when you take the trash bag out of the equation, you can take it out as often as you want. If something extra smelly finds its way inside, there's no hesitation to go dump it rather than holding out until you fill the bin

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's convenient. I could probably get away with that in an apartment but if I got caught I'd be in trouble. All trash needs to be in bags in my city.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah no, my can is way too heavy for that.

And no I'm not going to replace it and create more waste.