{"id":261,"date":"2015-01-22T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2019-08-24T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:43:56","slug":"living-without-trash-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/living-without-trash-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Living without Trash Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/recycle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-302 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/recycle.jpg\" alt=\"living without trash service\" width=\"487\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/recycle.jpg 487w, https:\/\/www.homesteadintheholler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/recycle-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Homestead in the Holler is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.<\/h4>\n<p>Before moving out to the Missouri Ozarks, we lived just outside a large city on an acreage.&nbsp; This meant that we had the privilege of a trash service coming out and picking up our garbage once a week and our recycling every other week.&nbsp; We totally took advantage of this service, watching our garbage and recycling magically disappear week after week.&nbsp; Sure, we fed food scraps to the chickens and had a compost pile going.&nbsp; But the bulk of our waste was being carted away by a trash truck.<\/p>\n<p>Then we moved to the beautiful Ozarks.&nbsp; We live in an area that there is no trash service out here in the country.&nbsp; Our trash no longer magically disappears.&nbsp; In fact, we realized just how much trash our family of five made!&nbsp; Holy moly!&nbsp; It&#8217;s very common to see people burning their trash in burn barrels around here, so we tried it once.&nbsp; It was effective, but it made Travis&#8217;s allergies flare up, he was stuffed up for days!&nbsp;&nbsp; Not very pleasant.&nbsp; So we decided to recycle as much as possible and try to get our trash output as low as possible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>How We Live Without Trash Service:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Reduce<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are trying to reduce purchasing any plastics\/plastic wrap that is not recyclable.&nbsp; A hard feat for sure, but we&#8217;re getting there. A great plastic wrap alternative that I&#8217;m eager to try are <a href=\"https:\/\/piwakawakavalley.co.nz\/plastic-wrap-alternative-beeswax-wraps\/\">Beeswax Wraps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use reusable bags when shopping.&nbsp; We keep extra bags in our car, just in case we forget to grab them when leaving the house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We plan on growing and canning\/preserving most, if not all of our food.&nbsp; Processed food is something that we just don&#8217;t buy, but even buying whole foods can result in a lot of plastic.&nbsp; Everything from bacon to broccoli is either plastic wrapped or placed in plastic bag!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reuse<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glass jars have been very handy for leftovers, broth, spices and organizing screws and nails in the garage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we use a ziploc bag, we wash it out and use it again. I would really like to get away from using ziploc bags altogether, but old habits die hard.&nbsp; We&#8217;re definitely using them less often than before and using them multiple times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Our chickens and pigs feast on food scraps.&nbsp; They love it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recycle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a recycling center in the town nearby.&nbsp; We have been sorting paper, glass, plastic and tin and taking it all in to be recycled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We are saving cardboard boxes for our garden beds this spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Using junk mail as fire starter has been a great way to get rid of the extra paper clutter that I never know what to do with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We have several compost piles going, for food scraps that the chickens won&#8217;t or can&#8217;t eat, paper items that break down quickly, leaves, weeds, animal manures etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By doing all of this, we&#8217;re left with a small amount of trash that is not recyclable.&nbsp; Currently, we take what we can&#8217;t recycle or reuse to the landfill, which is about 45 minutes away.&nbsp; We typically wait until we have a pickup load before heading to the landfill. &nbsp;&nbsp; We hope to reduce our trash even further. It is a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Do you recycle?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.thrv.me\/aff_c?offer_id=6&amp;aff_id=2296&amp;file_id=50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.go2speed.org\/brand\/files\/thrivemarket\/6\/728x90_BannerPaleo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/go.thrv.me\/aff_i?offer_id=6&amp;file_id=50&amp;aff_id=2296\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homestead in the Holler is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. 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