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How much rubbish do you produce each week? (self.casualuk)
submitted 7 months ago by Mex to c/casualuk
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I see my neighbours bins every bin day overflowing and it's got me wondering how much rubbish do you think you actually produce per person each week?

Not including any recycling, or waste food collection which is separate, just what we call the black bin here, I reckon we as a household of two on average we put less than two black bin bags out a fortnight, that's less than half a black bag each a week.

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[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Two bags a week here. As long as there's nothing that'll rot in them, we try and keep bags around in the spare room until they're completely filled. Dry unrecyclable garbage, basically.

The rubbish that exits my mouth, however, that's endless; especially if I've been drinking.

[–] Mex 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For how many people?

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Two people, a cat, and a venerable bunny with a large cage. Litter and shavings usually account for one full bag a week, as we can't really keep it around smelling in our apartment. Our cat has some medical stomach issues with diarrhea, so scooping only goes so far (he's on special vet assigned food). Its about one bag a week for us excluding pets, with an extra full bag of the previously mentioned dry garbage every 3 weeks. We try to keep things low and recycle where we can.

I may also be overestimating a little bit right now, since we're in the middle of spring cleaning, but even then most spring cleaning stuff goes to the free store, not the trash.