sell or toss anything you don’t want. your parent’s house is not storage. your bank account is storage. maybe get a label printer if you moving a lot?
run a tight ship. lease the big bulk. mind how much space your stuff takes up your target metric is value per unit volume your other target metric is convenience look into EDC, ultralight backpacking, and vitalik buterin’s 40L backpack guide.
as usual, everything is harder if you are taking care of kids or poor.
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bulk item disposal is free and near-instant for used bicycles. many such cases.
Aluminum cans are 10 cents per can. they are light and easy to transport. put cans in paper or plastic bag. put bag on curb. a street entrepreneur will take care of it for you.
Cardboard the hay of industrial society. brown boxes are toys, recycle bins, and iterative shelving. collapse them, cache them against the wall. when your pile is warm enough to sleep on, you have too much. it’s time to put it outside.
simply put it in a bigger cardboard box as a “bale” next to your blue bin.
Paper bags—recyclable, but hold onto at least ten
Plastic—goes into plastic bags goes into trash
Glass—goes into sink, into paper bags, then outside
Compost
i don’t compost things. about half of all waste is food waste. home kitchens are much more wasteful than factories. restaurant kitchens are efficient and strict on food safety.
crumbs and slop can go down garbage disposal. bones can be souped. fruits can be salted, pickled, jammed, or pied. in theory. i haven’t tried yet.
lastly the planter boxes outside have free ammonia recycling the decentralized compost of last resort
How to economically sort household trash (in SF)
before you start
sell or toss anything you don’t want.
your parent’s house is not storage.
your bank account is storage.
maybe get a label printer if you moving a lot?
run a tight ship.
lease the big bulk.
mind how much space your stuff takes up
your target metric is value per unit volume
your other target metric is convenience
look into EDC, ultralight backpacking, and vitalik buterin’s 40L backpack guide.
as usual, everything is harder if you are taking care of kids or poor.
---
bulk item disposal is free and near-instant for used bicycles.
many such cases.
Aluminum
cans are 10 cents per can. they are light and easy to transport.
put cans in paper or plastic bag. put bag on curb. a street entrepreneur will take care of it for you.
Cardboard
the hay of industrial society.
brown boxes are toys, recycle bins, and iterative shelving.
collapse them, cache them against the wall.
when your pile is warm enough to sleep on,
you have too much. it’s time to put it outside.
simply put it in a bigger cardboard box as a “bale” next to your blue bin.
Paper bags—recyclable, but hold onto at least ten
Plastic—goes into plastic bags goes into trash
Glass—goes into sink, into paper bags, then outside
Compost
i don’t compost things.
about half of all waste is food waste.
home kitchens are much more wasteful than factories.
restaurant kitchens are efficient and strict on food safety.
crumbs and slop can go down garbage disposal.
bones can be souped.
fruits can be salted, pickled, jammed, or pied.
in theory. i haven’t tried yet.
lastly the planter boxes outside have free ammonia recycling
the decentralized compost of last resort