Trash

A home, I thought nothing of tossing something into the waste basket. In fact, (like most families) we could routinely fill a large rolling trash bin for Waste Management to empty every week. Here on the boat it’s a different story. We have a limited capacity to store trash and yet (on some weeks) we seem to generate a lot of it. Unlike Oscar (of Sesame Street) who loves trash, my theme song is “I Hate trash”. On Snow Goose we use some methods to reduce the amount of unnecessary trash that seems to come with everyday living. We start by getting rid of it right off the bat by discarding most of the cardboard containers that our food comes in. This way we can discard a lot of our trash while still at an anchorage or dock. We also store some bulk items in zip lock bags or hard plastic containers such as rice, beans, pasta or cereal. Without the cardboard I find that I can store far more food in the same amount of space and because a boat is composed of curved sides these bags of food fit in much better than a box ever could. We also try to compact anything that goes into the waste basket before putting it in.