Ideal for EatingEating ethically while eating great!

Here are all the photos from our 40 Days of Earth Day experiment. Easier to see the progression like this.

2 days

3 days

3 days (tub)

4 days

8 days

11 days

16 days

23 days

25 days

28 days

30 days

33 days

35 days

39 days

40 days

46 days

 

While putting everything in recycling bags (5 of 'em), we counted the most prevalent items. The worst offender? To-go items, mostly plastic and glass drink containers, a few cardboard juice boxes, and 5 or 6 food bags from Starbucks. There were 73 to-go items in all.

We did not count everything in the tub. These are just the major categories:

• Canned beans: 13 cans
• Canned goods (not including beans): 7 cans
• Cereal and granola boxes: 12 boxes
• Chip bags: 14 bags
• Cookie boxes: 18 boxes
• Frozen foods: 18 bags/boxes
• Ice cream: 6 containers
• Juice (large, not individual servings): 8 bottles
• Milk (soy and cow's): 13 cartons
• Pasta: 8 boxes
• Senseo coffee: 8 bags (each bag hold 18 single-use pods)
• Tea boxes: 3
• To-go items: 6 small Starbucks food bags and 67 drink containers

As a reminder, we are a family of 5. And we do eat fresh vegetables and fruits! They just didn't get counted in a food packaging collecting experiment.