Clean Bin project

Cassandra and I just got back from a screening of the Clean Bin Movie. http://www.cleanbinmovie.com/

The movie was great it made you feel inspired, guilty, frustrated and made you laugh. It's about these two people from Vancouver that decided to go one year producing no garbage and buying nothing. They had to recycle and compost everything they could. At the end of the year they measured who produced more garbage over the course of the year. They both were able to limit their garbage to a small sized bucket.
You can read their blog here http://cleanbinproject.com/

These two people decided to do a film bike tour across Canada promoting this video and this was their last stop. They plan to submit the video to film festivals and then have it come out on DVD or download afterward.
I feel like now I have to be conscious of my consumerism and whether I really need to buy everything I do.  There is much more of a green movement now then even a few years ago. Propaganda and other social views are changing so that more people frown on cities and other people that don't at least try to reduce, recycle and re-use.

Cassandra and I are both still shocked that there is no curbside recycling here, they say it is going to start next month. Others have said that promise has been around for two years. We are saving our recycling though in a hope that it does start. If not, there apparently is a depot where you can drop recycling off but can we trust it doesn't just go into the garbage anyway? I hope everyone tries to do something at least. Cass and I usually always have re-useable bags for shopping, and try to avoid the use of the small plastic produce bags. We can't wait to start composting, the city says a program will be in place next year. Again we will wait and see, in the meantime we frown every time a banana peel goes in the garbage.

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