Vegetable Waste to Zero Waste in La Pinata, Chile

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3. In Portland our family has trimmed our garbage to two bags a month....

We recycle vegetable waste in the back yard, most other organic waste is picked up by the garbage hauler.

We recycle hard plastic and plastic film up the street and of course paper, some plastic, scrap metal and glass at the curb.

I fill one garbage can a month. I think if we worked at it we could reduce it to one bag a month but we'd have to reduce packaging by being careful about what we buy.

Portland now recycles about 50% of it's waste.