I am currently living with an older couple… maybe I should say, I am temporarily here until I move into my apartment (with some cool new roommates) on Feb 1 here in Charleston.  When I arrived, this older, conservative, tea-party member couple (ok, I have to be fair, only the Mrs., not the Mr. is a nutter… I mean tea-party member) was going though 3-4 trash bags a day in the kitchen.  EVERYTHING went in the trash.  So I started putting my recyclables in my (reusable) grocery bag, and told my host I would find a way to recycle it.  She said, oh we have recycling, I just don’t use the bin.  

*SHOCK*

So I have started to get her to use the recycle bin.

*SCORE!*

She now puts her numerous wine bottles, and the newspapers, in the bin, rather than the trash can.  

I think I even got her to agree to a compost pile today!!  I have already started putting my veggie scraps in a pile in the woods behind her house.  No sense in putting them in the garbage!  She even put her eggshells in the compost this morning.  

*Another Score!!*

Possibly, by the time I leave here, I will have made it old habit for them to recycle and compost.  Here’s hoping.

#recycle #compost #sustainable