My Road Begins...

Well, my road has begun a while ago, but now I'm blogging about it. Here's hoping that I'm able to keep up with it...I have little faith in my being able to maintain regular posts, but I'm giving it a whirl.

Anyways, as I was saying, my road to going green started a while ago, with recycling bottles. My main reason for doing this was, of course, self serving: money. I buy stuff in bottles, like that bad for me bottle of Pepsi, and would save the bottles until I was desperate for money. Had I been truly green, I wouldn't have bought the bottles of pop to begin with.

So I'm not trying to say that I AM a green person, or that I could educate anyone on it by any means, but this forces me to try to be a more responsible steward of the earth. After all, one day my kids might give me grandbabies for me to spoil, and they MIGHT like to be able to breath without a bottle of air...

Now onto my current endeavors, how I am working on become a greener household, and attempting to get my family to follow suit. I have a recycling "centre" in my house, which is really just a fancy way to describe my three plastic shelves with two old freezer baskets, and a mid-sized blue recycle bin, plus on plastic "bin shopping" tote. The blue recycle bin is always lined with a bag for returnable beverage containers. One of the freezer baskets is for newspaper, the other for cardboard, and the tote is for plastics and cans. I live in a townhouse, and if we want to recycle, we have to sort it and take it to the recycling centre on Frizzie Road.

I have also cut down on our plastic intake by a fair amount, especially since I switched to Avalon bottled milk (you can buy it at Marget Meats in Williams Lake). I like having the bottled milk, but my kids aren't so keen, they insists that it tastes different. I tell them that it's because the milk doesn't have plastic seeping into it...lol! I have to say that this was a more expensive en devour, as 1 liter of milk there cost almost as much as a 4 liter jug of milk from other grocery stores, but it was a choice that I made, and refuse to turn back from (what can I say, I'm pig-headed some times!).

I also take the recyclables from work (excluding returnable beverage containers), and take them to the recycling centre as well. The only problem with this is that I have to take the recyclables from work every day, or else they will toss them away. There is no room to store them for an entire week there, and the amount that comes from work is more than I can store at home as well. This then means that in order to get work to recycle, I have to use gas in my car in order to get these recyclables to where they need to go. I'm still fairly certain that in the long run it is better for the environment, but I wish that I didn't have to go everyday. But if wishes were pennies, EVERYONE would be rich!  :)

Well, this is enough for one day, I'll try to write more tomorrow!  :)