The Assignment

This weeks assignment, we were asked to find a fun and creative way to measure and document out. Waste for a week. Although it was somewhat yucky, it wasn’t as bad as I had imagined. I realised that I only fill up a small trash bag in a whole week. And in that bag, a lot of it is natural waste from fruits and vegetables. Don’t get me wrong; there was defiantly some plastic and quite a bit of recyclable cardboard.

Ideas

when I first started to document my waste, I wrote down the items I was throwing away in my notebook. It wasn’t until the day after that I had gotten the idea in how I can represent my trash in glass jars. I had realised that I go through (and had saved) a lot of glass jars. Mainly from honey, pasta sauce and pesto!

But what was I do fill my jars with? After looking at my notes, I would have seven jars, one for every day. Then place my most common items in each jar. I was thinking of putting one lot of waste in one jar for a day, but I think that I much prefer having all items separate. It gives it this scientifically documented effect which I like.

My first step was to clean all the jars and remove all the labels, once I had done so I then placed each jar on the top of my fridge and instead of throwing the waste into my bin I would put in into the jar.

Process

cleaning jars,

starting with my first day,

Wednesday,

Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday,

Sunday,

Monday,

Tuesday,