Happy New Year Everyone!
This is the year of doing, not just resolving to do! Living greener lives : We had sorted our garbage for months, maybe even years. Our plastics and kitchen wastes were stashed separately, so that the ragpicker could get it without having to go through really gross stuff. But my new baby sitter is really lazy, she will dump all trash in the plastics only bin because it is right there in the balcony, unlike the kitchen waste bin under the sink. She mostly has only fruit peels to dump after feeding ashu. Now I have added a new plastics bin, to the balconey, shiny red and fully covered. I have left my old open plastics bin for her daily use. We have also signed up online for regular sorted trash pickup a new service in Chennai . Now chennai city corporation's uninterested workers cannot negate all the work we put into cleaning and sorting the trash! I will update after 3 regular pick ups. I have ceased and desisted from buying everything tha...