I have become more conscious lately of the size of my footprint on the world. Rising costs, environmental decimation and just my adversion to waste in general have me spending a lot of time thinking about how I can really shift my habits toward less unhealthy for both me and the planet ones. The first thing I did was to start teaching the boys how to recycle. It is such an easy thing but we’re so bad at it. We’re getting better.

I am also working on ways to avoid disposable things. Now, mind you, if we ever adopted another child that needed diapers, I would not go so far as to use cloth but I am trying to reuse shopping bags and have an assortment of cloth bags that I use at some stores. My next project is to recycle some fabric (old curtains) and make some neat looking ones that I’d use anywhere.

I also knitted this:

The concept of this is to reduce the amount of waste generated by those little cup sleeves you get when you buy coffee at a coffee shop. I think they also serve a purpose of identifying your bottle or glass readily and avoiding the sneaky steal of the bottle that sometimes happens in my house. Unfortunately, this one is a bit too small for its intended purpose. I guess I’ll have to go to B&N (Sigh, the sacrifices I make) and get a cup to measure so I can determine the proper size.

Trying to be a better world citizen works for me. Reuse and Recycle is a concept I can easily embrace. What about you?