This morning's Ideal Bite reminded me about something we decided to do a few months ago -- throw away our garbage can. I'd had enough with breaking bags and leaking bags and just the general mess and space. Our kitchen closet now just has our recycling bag in it.

When we go grocery shopping we always ask for paper now, and use paper bags for trash. It's just easier, cheaper, and seems more ecologically sound. It's also made it pretty clear to me how little trash we produce these days. We always have just enough bags before we need to go shopping again - about 2 bags a week. Most of our waste seems to be recycled - we end up taking recycling at least once a week.

This will work out even better when we have a house, as there are slidey thingies for paper bags to fit under the sink instead of it being on the floor, just barely out of the way.