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It's the laziest way to technically pare down your possessions, because the one thing you can never do enough of in a small New York City apartment like mine is get rid of stuff, the stuff that our modern consumerist, carbon powered culture makes us buy endlessly and often for no reason. Getting rid of people never hurts either. Roommates, family members. That old lady who's been in your living room for weeks. Who is she anyway?

No squatters allowed. I don't care if you're a ghost also not to brag, but I've been micro declaring since before Marie Kondo got big. In fact, I've cut out her step of picking things up and figuring out whether they spark. Join me because I already know what Sparks doing. Me throwing out trash. What kind of trash? Well, I'll give you a clue. It starts with eight and it ends with there. That's right. It's a lot of hair.

Don't try and picture how much you'll feel sick. And if you don't feel sick, you haven't pictured enough. I shed like an Instagram influencer sheepdog who's decided fur is the only thing holding her career back. We're all trying to reduce our carbon footprints and consumption. So by throwing out trash, I also naturally mean recycling and composting. I try to do both. In fact, I once carry to take out a container across half the city just to put it in the right.

Then where's my inspiring biopic?

But then I learned recycling frequently isn't working. Even if we all separate out glass cans and cardboard, a lot of stuff doesn't neatly fit into those categories. Paper envelopes lined with bubble wrap can't be recycled. Pizza boxes with grease stains can't be recycled. That memory from 7th grade when I. Who am I kidding? All of 7th grade can't be recycled.

There's even a term for it. Aspirational recycling. At first I thought that if you went to spin class last week so it should count for this week to China. Used to import a lot of us recyclables, but they stopped accepting foreign garbage in twenty eighteen as part of a pollution ban. Whatever happened to one country's trash is another country's treasure. Now a lot of us recycling goes straight to landfills. The EPA says that only 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled.

Not that this is about me, but these balloons, my anxiety, the size of the giant Pacific garbage patch, we out in the ocean where we'll all eventually go for our next destination wedding.

So if you're American, how are your political representatives to work on this recycling issue and try to create less waste overall by reusing materials? Your stuff I've been reusing in my life, plastic bags, salsa jars and old fights with my boyfriend. Now, the next time I have to throw out the trash, I can confidently ask, hey, can I reuse this loose ball of hair again?

And you know what? I probably can. In fact, I'm going to give it to that old ghost lady as a going away present.

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