How much garbage does one person produce

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
12/01/2018 at 19:43 • Filed to: None

In 341 days?

About this much, give or take a bag or three. I’m old, tired and lazy and have nobody to nag me, so I take it out only occasionally, partially because the dumpsters are quite far away and nowhere near where I park . Since Christmas last year, which I think was the last time I did a garbage purge, it’s either been too hot or too cold, but tonight it’s in the mid 60s and breezy, so I figured I’d finally get this task out of the way. 200 mg of caffeine also helped boost me up a tad.

There’s still a few things that need to go to e-waste, namely a pile of gutted DVRs and things like that, and once I find a hazmat drop event (and make a little more room in the car), I’ll take care of that.

Yes, I'm a pig. A dirty, sloppy pig that wallows in his own filth. I do clean up nicely, however...

DISCUSSION (5)

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/01/2018 at 21:01

I am in the same dilemma. I have a bad habit of leaving things lying around and unorganized, but when I’m in the mood to clean it up I do it well.

The past year I have spent making incremental improvements in reducing the amount of crap I own. I’ve been double, triple, quadruple checking if I really need something I’m in possession of, and then come back again to revisit the topic again many months later.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
12/01/2018 at 21:15

I think I’m like one of those warehouse robots. It doesn’t matter where things are placed because I know where they are and I can find them. It may look like chaos to some, but if you put things in seemingly ‘logical’ places I wouldn’t be able to find them.

Yeah, I’ve got too much crap. I had a bad habit of snapping up amazing deals over at the Goodwill Outlet, but never purging the items they replaced. For example, today I found a killer Logitech 7.1 gaming headset that’s rather ugly (‘leather’ coating on earcups and headband flaking off) but seems to work just fine. I think I’ll keep this one, but that means I’m not going to use the other half dozen lesser headsets I’ve acquired over the years - they have to go. Same thing with wireless routers. I keep upgrading, but haven’t gotten rid of the rest. They’re never going to be used, so why keep them?

I think I’ll have a $5 sale. You want a coffee or espresso maker? $5. How about a computer monitor - $5. A wireless router? Your choice, just $5 each. They get a deal, I get cash (and probably about $4.50 in profit) - everyone wins.

The other thing I’ve started to do is get some plastic tubs over at Costco. My new mantra is that once a tub is filled with a certain commodity I keep no more of that item. Sell, throw away, give away or donate - that extra stuff has got to go. That doesn’t apply to Hot Wheels, however - those get as many tubs as they need...

Merfthemadmauler > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/01/2018 at 23:28

Hell I can make that much garbage in a month and that’s not including beer cans.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Merfthemadmauler
12/01/2018 at 23:40

I hate landfills so I try to reuse/recycle/repurpose as much as possible, so this could have been worse. Part of it was from a long-overdue purging of the kitchen cabinets and getting rid of a surprisingly large amount of expired food that I had accumulated over the years.

Merfthemadmauler > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
12/02/2018 at 00:04

I don’t know this for sure,but I believe that most all the ‘recycle’ here in the Phoenix/Tempe area other than commercial cardboard and aluminum ends up in a landfill. Unfortunately.