OK, so my roomie, Miss Bliss, and I talked it over last weekend and we decided as a household to take on the zero waste challenge. Inspired by a recent article in Ascent Magazine detailing one woman's waste free odyssey, it made me think it's time to take my environmental consciousness to the next level. So I have been doing my research, which mostly consisted at re-looking at what the f**k I was throwing in the garbage, and paying a visit to the local recycling depot to have a long chat about what they accepted, and what they didn't. It turned out in this day and age you could recycle quite a bit.

Already a low waste household, about one shopping bag every 2 weeks, our little cabin here at Latimers End seemed the perfect candidate to raise the bar on sustainability. Surely we, if anyone, had a good chance of doing away with our weekly trash pick-up. Certainly we could be using the can for other things. Already I'm thinking it would be a great robust vessel to mix up manure tea for the garden in, but welcome suggestions. One day it will certainly be a blog post all it's own - 101 Things To Do With A Garbage Can: Besides Throwing Garbage In It.

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