Who can live like that? having to bend over and open a door every time you want to throw away a wrapper. And then what do you do when you need to toss a pizza box or something?

  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Really don't get how y'all are creating so much garbage. My partner and I have a small can under the sink, and basically all that goes on there is occasional plastics from food wrapping, it takes like 2 weeks to fill up.

    Most of our waste goes to compost, the rest recycling. When we have pizza boxes we just put them directly in the garbage outside.

    The real question is why are y'all creating so much waste you need to have a giant container of garbage out in your kitchen?

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        When I lived somewhere with no recycling service, I'd flatten and pile up my cardboard and take it to the recycling center every so often. I'd sell my crushed aluminum cans and any steel cans/scrap to the scrapyard too.

        But that is all individual consumption stuff and that's what liberals are consumed with. Under a better system, none of this would matter.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      be American. Literally just one weekend night of existing as a five person family fills up half the recycling bin

      everything has so fucking much plastic and shit

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What kind of compost setup do you have? I liked my friends composting setup in the sticks. Essentially a metal bucket for all organic waste that goes in a bigger bin just outside then into a big composting pile when that fills up. In an apartment I'd probably need to put a compost bin on my porch and that wouldn't be super nice.

      I wish municipalities had better trash services. Idek if my apartment complex has municipal trash or just a contracted service.

      • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        We keep an old plastic bin (like you might buy pre-prepped greens in) in the freezer for most things, and a ceramic pot next to the sink for coffee grounds. We have a composter in our yard for our vegetable garden, but if we didn't we'd be doing the same thing and just putting it in the city greens weekly pick up.

        Edit: our town stopped doing weekly garbage pickup to promote producing less waste, now does garbage every two weeks. They do green waste pickup every week though. It's a good system, if your household is producing more than a bin of straight trash every couple of weeks they are fucking up.

          • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Lol yeah of course everybody who has a vegetable garden is rich American leftists stop being babies challenge

              • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                What a dumb thing to think. Has it been a few years since I've gone to bed hungry? Yes, almost 10. Do I have money and/or assets? No dawg I do not. Can my partner and I afford a home or a child? Again, no.

                If you don't like me fine but this attempt to discredit me because you can read the Matrix code about my life is weak af.

                  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    Incredible. My partner and I rent a 1 bedroom suite with a yard because we were evicted last year because the landlord's son wanted to move in. Could we afford a two bedroom? Could we afford to live closer to our old neighbourhood? Could we afford this one bedroom if we weren't splitting it? No on all accounts.

                    This is obviously a stupid conversation, but yeah for some reason struggling all my adult life and it being so god-damned hard all the time and finally getting out of debt this year so late in my life for some reason it hurts in a surprising way for you to so casually assume I'm rich.

                    I'm out, I'm going to go eat some of these refried beans I've been making. I hope you have a good weekend comrade.

    • deadbergeron [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think you are misunderstanding the nature of said garbage can. This isn't a small can under the sink, this is a special cabinet installed in the kitchen that slides out revealing one, sometimes two, full size bins.

      edit: just reread the post and it literally says small bin under the sink. Looks like I'm the one who misunderstands.