Trash Talk Day 5 - Weekends are tough

Wow are weekends tough! Lots of trash.

The highlight of the weekend was showing up to our company party with my bag of trashed neatly tucked inside my oversized black purse! Without realizing it until too late, I accidentally let the waiter take a glass bottle away (which I would have recycled) as well as two small disposable plastic cups (not recyclable because the top is larger than the bottom - such a weird rule). I'll add 4 ounces to my total garbage weight at the end of the week for the cups.

Also, I took the bag of trash on a 4-mile hike... luckily there are no bears in the Austin area, otherwise they might have picked up the scent of rotting grapefruit peel (I like to think of it as perfume). Tomorrow I am going to get a contained compost bin to put in my backyard - something similar to this.

Here is the low-down on the latest trash:
Empty milk carton - not recyclable
Tons of paper and newspaper - recyclable
Aluminum cans - recyclable
Plastic bottles - body is recyclable; top is not
Used fabric softener sheets - not recyclable but people have found lots of creative ways to reuse them :)
Lint from the dryer - compostable
Fruit remains - compostable
Paper - recyclable
Tissues - compostable
Plastic bags - most not recyclable but HEB does allow you to recycle grocery bags from their store.
Plastic screen from junk mail (so annoying to detach from the envelope!) - not recyclable