The Sewing Mom

I think we began recycling when we lived in Houston about 15 years ago. The city offered curbside pick up which made it very easy to recycle cans, plastic bottles, glass, newspaper, etc. When we moved to Connecticut we had to take our own recycling which I did. Newspapers, magazines and glass I would take to the dump and place them in the appropriate bins. We had curbside trash pickup but they didn’t pick up recycling. Pop cans and pop bottles my daughter and I would take to the machines that crushed them and gave us cash for turning them in. That was pretty cool! In Illinois we were back to having curbside pickup. My bins were always overflowing and I was so happy the day they switched fromt those small bins to the big ones on wheels.

Now we’re in Texas and we do have curbside pickup with the big wheeled bins. Not too long after we got here I went to the Village of Parker and asked them if it was possible for me to get a second recycling bin as I was always overfilling the one I had. That afternoon a second bin was delivered. My typical Wednesday morning is me pushing one tash bin to the curb with usually one, possibly two bags of trash in it, and 1-2 full recycle bins to the curb. I feel good that I recycle more than I throw away.

With all the talk of going green, I wondered how I’m doing. I do recycle, I do try not to drive unneccesarily and we’ve been replacing light bulbs with the new, more energy efficient bulbs. I decided to take a GreenIQ quiz and see how I’m doing. I got a score of 45 which means I can do much better. GreenIQ also give tips on increasing how green you are. They even have green gift ideas for holiday shopping needs!  My score reflects that I am aware of the issues and am doing things to help but that I can do more.  How are you doing?