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HIdden trash!!! There is plastic everywhere!

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week four round up! - HIDDEN TRASH!

When I started this journey I thought my biggest chore would be replacing bad habits and learning how to make stuff my self. BUT I am slowly realizing there is tons of hidden trash! Packaging, packaging, packaging!!!!I buy organic rice crackers... they come in a plastic package. I bought organic cake mix; recyclable cardboard on the outside.... plastic on the inside. I like to take EmergenceC during winter... plastic foil. Organic rice pancake...plastic.

In February I am going to change three things, for good. I think the easiest step will be toothpaste, tampons, making my own laundry detergent. We will see how that goes... hahaha! This is super hard, and totally worth it.

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I eat a salad everyday, every other day I buy a plastic container that has salad in it so I throw over a 150 plastic boxes away every year just on my own... :(

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The point!

Okay, so i finally got over myself and realized these embarrassing feelings the shame of how much trash I make is THE POINT. I know I was going to go one year just looking at my trash and finding alternatives but now I feel like I could start tomorrow. I guess people need to figure out what kind of person they are and want to be. Can you just snatch off the band-aid, dive in the pool or do you peel it off and dip one toe in the water.

I like to think I am a snatch off kinda girl and for a lot of things I am but the is hard. 

How am I going to clean my floors?

What about cat food? 

P.s I have an amazing cat name The Captain, she wonderful and I love her. The Captain is my best friend.

Next monday I am going to have a list of things to make and stop buying in February! Perhaps thats how I will do it! Each month take out something and replace it with something else! BOOM!!!! Done!

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To much!

Its been almost two weeks since I last posted. Honestly, its been really hard for me to look at all the trash I make. I thought it would be easier when I got back to the city to make less trash. I don't eat out much, I am a vegetarian and I only eat organic. None of that MATTERS. Its the packaging on these things. Also things I didn't even think of are starting to pop up. Keeping it 100 I had my period last week... I change my tampon every 4-6 hrs and sleep in a pad.. Its made so much trash. The plastic tube, the plastic cover and then the tampon it’s self. Plus I ran out of some of my pressed power... I use Bobbie brown which is the best makeup for my skin tone but it comes in a plastic container. I did laundry and ran out of detergent... A huge bottle, thrown away. I ran out of toothpaste. I needed to Swifter my floors... Also my building doesn't have recycle. They just throw it all away.  I am feeling super over whelmed. I feel super lost in my ability to find change and make it sustainable. :( 

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Week 1 Wrap Up

After one short week of collecting, photographing and journaling about my trash I really had to pause for a moment. Yesterday I detoxed and only had green juices I made at home. I can't believe in one week I made so much trash... How can I travel and create no waste. How can I live normally and create no waste... Its a actually stressing me out a bit. I don't know how I can keep looking at my trash and feeling over whelmed because I can't do anything. Its only been a week and I don't know if I can do this for a year AND CREATE NO TRASH in 2017. this seems like an impossible journey, with an unobtainable goal. How can I live in New York and create no wast. My building doesn't even have recycling! I talk the talk, I use only cruelty free products, I am a pescatarian, I go to the farmers market in Union sq on saturdays I recycle when I can, I NEVER liter. But now I need to truly walk the walk... I need to truly investigate how I can start making moves towards a completely green, no impact, no waste, no mark life style. 

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Hello Manhattan!!

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Heading Home

I rounded up my trip with only eating out... Yesterday I woke up and ate at the Boulder City Diner and ate lunch at the airport at 2:00. My flight was originally supposed to take off at  2 and was pushed to 4… I ate dinner on the plane.

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Ashamed

After I looked at the pictures from the day before, yesterday I only ate at restaurants. I didn’t stop at the gas station for goodies and soda, I didn’t do fast food.

But it’s not sustainable financially.

Breakfast: 17.89

Lunch: 14.17

Dinner: 28.93

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Gas station food... 

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Grand Canyon

The trip from Utah to the Grand Canyon doesn't have many food options available... So I ate from a couple of gas stations along the way. Once I reached my hotel in the Grand Canyon I ate at the restaurant there. 

Honestly I really can not come up with a solution for a road trip that generates no trash.

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Waking up late....

Of course on my final day in Vegas, I wake up late! I am rushing to pack, check out, eat, find a taxi, get the rental car!! It was bananas. Soooo what do I do I grab McDonald's; not healthy and TONS of trash!

On the road to Utah I are three tacos and a burrito. For dinner I had a salad at a restaurant called... Wild Willies.

How do you travel, eat well and create no trash!

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Styrofoam cups,plastic table liner, plastic bags,plastic gloves, roll of paper napkins... not great.

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Hot and Juicy

Yesterday I ventured off the Las Vegas strip and found HOT and JUICY! It is local crawfish and seafood place. You are literally served from a huge plastic bag... I am a lot of trash from just eating. In New York I rarely eat out, so I'm sure that will change once I am back. But my question is how do you eat when you are away from you home?

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I had a lot of coffee... Perhaps giving up sugar will not only be better for my health but also the earth. 

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Las Vegas

In the summer of 2015 I tried to go a month without making trash... I literally could not go a day.

Currently I am in Las Vegas baby!!!! My fiancé and I decided to come down for New Years Eve. Yesterday we were really tired so we stayed in, order room service and watched movies!! Still created trash. Some recyclable and I am not sure if the MGM Grand recycles the wast from rooms. I will ask when we check out tomorrow.