Birthdays

Ok, we just finished celebrating an adult birthday.

Unwanted unrecyclable trash was:

• Foil style wrapping on cream cheese used for carrot cake frosting,
• Plastic packing for bobblehead gift,
• Gift wrapping,
• Shrink wrap plastic on local cheese we brought back from up north,
• Cracker/biscuit plastic wrap.
• CD plastic cover and plastic shrink wrapping and all those sticky labels they put around them.
  

Plastic wrap is the biggest problem

Attempts to reduce:

• I tried to limit the cream cheese foil by purchasing at the local creamery but they packaged theirs in plastic resealable containers, so that was no good. Need to bring my own glass container next time.
• Gift wrapping will be reused and we need to look at it to see if we can add it to the compost.
  
• Can't do much about the bobblehead gift - will adorn office computer for many years.
  
• Plastic wrap from cheese - short of leaving it at the factory we would need to order it especially for pick-up. Cheese house was closed just outlet was open. - not buy it I guess.
• Plastic wrap around crackers - only way around it is to serve baguette or make our own.
• CD plastic waste - will contact companies to reduce crap around CD but short of downloading the music from the web, which is not very glamorous as a gift but ok for just myself, CD waste is a problem.
  

This was a small celebration with a handful of friends over for cake and the waste was kept to a minimum. Can't seem to get around the plastic shrink wrap on everything.

Only answer I can see for all the plastic is lobby lobby and then make more noise.