I have created 20 lb. of garbage!!

Yesterday Yoko and Marble finished their bag of catfood and I used the 40-lb. bag to put all my garbage in before I dump it in the trash bin.  And that's when I found out they weighed about half of when the bag was full.  So that's 20 lb. of garbage!!

I thought to myself, wow, let's see what's in here because I never realized I can create so much garbage until lately when I have become more mindful about environmental health.

As I went through my mental checklist, I found plastic bags, Q-tips, hair (human and cat), paper, food scraps and Starbucks cups (even though they are 10% recyclable) cans from canned cat food, and other gross things.  And I looked around my place, there are shampoo bottles, plastic this and that, and I worry.  Who knows how many years it will take for these junks to be  "digested" by mother earth.  

I remember my grandma used to save the fat she got from frying some pork meat and she'd save the lard for her future stir fry dishes.  I am beginning to wonder, if used in moderation, maybe lard is not so bad after all, because in that case, she doesn't have to buy plastic bottles of other oils to use and pollute the earth with used plastic bottles.  

We human usually start invent something which we thought are good for us and don't know we are walking down a path of destruction until we start to hurt a little.