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Week 30 of my blog…good lord only 22 weeks left in the year, where does time go?

So I’m back to photographing my plastic and even though there is only a small amount in the picture, I am still ashamed. Six items is nothing compared to the countless pieces of plastic that an average American family throws away each week, but after 30 weeks I should be getting better at this.

I bought or paid for all the plastic in the picture. In fact the balled up plastic wrap I just bought today when I replaced my air filter. I looked for an un/non wrapped air filter but something has to hold the paper that has the bar code on it, so it seemed I was out of luck.

Do you remember life before bar codes? Can you imagine that we used to have to go through a checkout line with a real person that had to look at the item and read the price off of a sticker? How archaic!

I also bought a halogen lightbulb and in the picture is the wrapping for it. Halogen bulbs are supposed to last as long a cfl’s but we have replaced this particular one 3 times in the year that we have lived in our house, go figure!

Along with the bulb and filter wrapping there are the drinks that we took to the movies. GASP! She sneeks in food at the movies…at $4.00 for a small drink wouldn’t you? Then there is the wrapping for the mayonnaise. I can’t find mayo in glass jars anymore, all the jars are made of plastic and the one that my husband bought the other day had an outside layer of plastic for it’s label. I didn’t mean to take it completely off but it wouldn’t stop tearing , so off it came.

Is your plastic usage dwindling? Are you down to less then me? Keep it up and see what I bring home next week.

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