Trash in a Pasta Bag for 2016.
Over the course of the year, I managed to cut down my consumption a little more. I was also able to reuse and recycle most of the packaging in which my food and other items came. When all was said and done, I ended up sending about eight pounds of trash to the landfill, about a pound less than I sent to the landfill in 2015. This trash primarily included packaging for food items, wrappers for fast food items, and styrofoam and wax paper cups and plates from potlucks.
Even though I can account for the trash that I have directly sent to the landfill, the companies that made the items that I consumed, the companies that made the packaging in which those items came, the transportation companies that moved those items around, and the restaurants at which I ate, all produced trash that went to landfills as well.
