You know, having burned most of my trash over the years I’ve not thought that much about the plastic trash in my life. It goes in the white or black garbage bag, I smash it on down, take it up in the woods, pour some lighter fluid on it and stack a bunch of wood on it and it becomes a bright fire. Then it’s gone. But it’s still trash – carbon dioxide that’s warming the planet, water vapor and several more noxious chemicals including the much discussed dioxin and furans.

I rarely buy to go food or take out. Seems like a waste of money. Nor do I use single use products except maybe for paper plates and plastic silverware at camp that gets burnt up but even that I’ve gotten away from in large part due to the cost. I always seem to focus on the things I have to pay to get rid of and aren’t recyclable – namely broken appliances. Not things that burn up to nothing. I think this really distorts my views on single use products and trash – people who don’t burn – make a lot more trash and its a whole lot more visible then the things I burn or pay to get rid of.