Days 2 and 3 - Don’t go to Chipotle unless you are REALLY hungry!

Yesterday went really well - almost no trash at all! Cereal for breakfast; plated meals for lunch and dinner; no paper or plastic cups and no plastic utensils! I recycled some trash from day 1 and am working on getting a contained compost unit :)

I interviewed a candidate for a co-op position yesterday, and I got really flustered explaining why I had a plastic grocery bag of trash attached to my hip! Luckily, it was a college student I was interviewing, and they are used to having trash around, I would think (just kidding!) :)

Today, things were not so easy - the banana peel is starting to stink! I didn't get time to eat breakfast (which meant no trash - that was a plus at least). For lunch, I had Chipotle - you know how when you don't eat breakfast, you get full really easily at lunch? Well, that happened and I only made it through half of my "burrito the size of your head"... I decided that it would be really gross to have to carry that burrito around with me, so I saved it and ate it for dinner - and it was nasty - I don't recommend eating Chipotle burritos that are not fresh... it was like eating baby food from the jar, but without the jar.

I accumulated a coke can, paper, and aluminum foil, which I will recycle. I will compost the tea bag. I read that I could recycle the brown paper that came with my burrito, but paper cups are not recyclable, nor is the plastic food bag or straw. (Only #1 and #2 plastics are recyclable in Austin).

One of my favorite things about doing trash talk has been the creative ideas my friends have shared on how to avoid collecting items as trash - for example, I could have washed the plastic straw and put it away in a drawer with thoughts of reusing it. Or I could have had my husband throw the plastic food bag away - it's technically his responsibility too, right?!

Here's the remains from days 2 and 3: