These new garbage/food+yard waste/recycling guidelines are going to drive me effin' berserk. I should be such an easy sell on these thing -- I'm greenish and honestly try to improve at it, I'm a rule-follower, I've been using one of those compost cones for years, I was taught to sing "Litterbug, litterbug, shame on you" in kindergarten.... But I'm spending waaaay too much time these days measuring the diameter of lids and poring over the byzantine garbage chart, trying to determine whether a butter wrapper counts as food-soiled coated paper (it's food-soiled and it's paper but it's not plastic-coated paper) or is really more like a greasy pizza box. Surely if a paper towel with butter on it goes into the food bin, then a piece of paper with butter on it goes there too? But what if I'm wrong?
And the horror: I'm having to open up the ancient yogurts that got pushed back behind the condiments last February, scoop the sour nastiness out, and then wash out the little nuclear cooling towers that it's packaged in so I can recycle them. I'm using water to wash my garbage. Or rather, my recycling. That doesn't feel very green. I'm just going to have to be a lot more careful not to buy unneeded yogurt. The only thing I've really got figured out is pizza. Would that everything were packaged in a greasy pizza box.
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