In the end, I couldn't help myself. I just know that someone is going to clear out the refrigerator at work and throw away a ton of the food that is still hanging around. So, last night, I made a nice plate to take to a meeting I had up the street. It's not required to take food but I knew that people would eat it if I took it. So I picked up some cheese and salami and pepperoni and olives. Yes, this goes against my belief that eating just to get rid of food when you don't need to eat is the same as throwing the stuff away. But, I couldn't fight the urge.

It turned out to be a great idea. At least two people hadn't eaten dinner before the meeting and were starving and afraid that all there would be were sweets or junk. They were incredibly happy to see real food. I was happy to put it to good use. One of my meetingmates took the leftovers home to make pizza. I feel much better.

My trash for the week consists of:

teabags (bag in composting tag in recycling)
Tea wrappers- two in recycling, several in the trash
veggie bits into the composting
plastic wrap that was on some containers I found in the cupboard

my big trash is dog poop. I live in a city and I walk the dog in the park so I have to pick up his poop and throw it away. I reuse the plastic bags from the farmer's market and grocery store which means lot of extra plastic for clean up. But, when I've looked up biodegradable dog poop bags, they average over 10 cents each and I'm not sure about the expense vs the plastic. The problem is that I don't have any other way to recycle the plastic bags so I feel better that they are at least being used for something.