Carnival of Trash Time

Welcome to the January edition of The Carnival of Trash, celebrating the new year with lots of ideas and inspiration to help you reduce your waste. Thanks to all the bloggers for their submissions. To see what's coming up next month, check out the details at the end of the post.

Recycling

Cindy presents The Green Shopping Bag posted at My Recycled Bags.com, saying, "I'm here this carnival to offer a free pattern and picture tutorial to crochet a green shopping bag. My green shopping bag is made with at least 80 recycled plastic grocery bags that I cut into strips and crocheted them into this handy reusable tote. It's real roomy and holds lots of items."

Cindy who also presents Recycled Christmas Gift Bag Ideas posted at My Recycled Bags.com, saying, "Recycle some old plastic bags into cool Christmas gift bags this year. I offer free patterns to create several alternatives to the traditional gift wrapping for your presents."


Jim presents The Five Reasons Why I Recycle posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Reducing Waste

Wenchypoo presents An All-Day Sunday Peeve-a-Thon posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo's Mental Wastebasket, saying, "Why make just a 2009 waste-busting resolution when you need to do it ALL THE TIME!"


Jen presents Day 185: Happy Waste-Free New Years posted at The Clean Bin Project, saying, "We aim to start off this year by cataloging, for a week, the actual amount of trash and recycling we are still producing after 6 months of trying to slim our bins."


Mrs Green presents Happy New Year - it’s the countdown to Gloucestershire zero waste challenge week! posted at MY ZERO WASTE, saying, "We've made two trashtastic resolutions for 2009; have a read and find out what we are planning!"


Almost Mrs Average presents New Year's Resolutions in the Almost Average household posted at The Rubbish Diet, saying, "This year, I'll be digging my way out of packaging!"

Rethinking

makingthishome presents Switch to Cloth Bags posted at Making This Home, saying, "Thanks for hosting this and sharing everyone's ideas!"

That concludes this edition. The February Edition is calling for bloggers to promote local stores or services that help reduce waste. So please take time to applaud your favourite businesses. They could be shops that sell nearly new items or recycled goods. It might be a grocery store that sells unpackaged produce or a skilled tradesperson who repairs items. Please give them a huge shout-out to help spread the word and encourage people to shop wisely and locally.

Please submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of trash using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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