A Year of Living Trashlessly

Jess Chamberlain | March 25, 2013 | Lifestyle Story City Life

A few dozen cheese wrappers
Several nori sheet wrappers (for making sushi)
Several plastic vitamin-bottle and yogurt-container rings
1 pasta bag
Some nut bags
1 plastic net bag of Mandarin oranges
Some chip bags (Geoff’s one vice)
Theraflu packaging (from when Geoff was really sick)
1 pretzel bag
A few clothing tags
Some sponge wrappers (Robin has tried to convince Geoff to go with microfiber cloths, but he likes Twist-brand kitchen sponges)
Some Halloween candy wrappers
A few broken rubber bands
Some popped balloons (yes, Gemma sometimes gets to have a free balloon from the hardware store)
1 lipstick tube
Several disposable razor blades
1 coffee bag
A few Styrofoam vitamin protectors
Broken plastic beads
A few holey socks

Originally published in the April 2013 issue of San Francisco.

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