trash-sicles

[jadey]

Okay, am I the only person in the world who freezes her garbage?

Clearly not, because my mum is the person who taught me to, but I've had a few people wig when they saw frozen garbage in my freezer and now I'm trying to assure myself I'm not a complete freak.

Mum and I started doing it when we noticed that our kitchen bin was getting stinky well before trash day. Rather than empty it twice as often and store it in the big bin outside (cold in winter, lazy the rest of the time), we took some plastic milk bags and any time there was potentially smelly garbage (e.g., shrimp tails, oily napkins, chicken bones, etc.), we popped it in the freezer. It was a great solution. Now that I'm living in my own place, which doesn't have composting or even recycling (I know ;_;), it's even more vital to me to be able to keep some gunky stuff in the freezer, rather than make trips down to the outside bin all the time (lazy, and also even colder in this province).

But is this weird? Does anyone else do this?

Comments

Re: huh

[jadey]

Plastic bags are tricky now! I remember when my childhood home used to overflow with them. Plus a lot of grocery bags now are super thin and flimsy, so they're useless for bin liners most of the time because my groceries poke holes in them. Cloth bags are my favourite for shopping, but I did have some uses for plastic, dammit...

In Ontario, I used plasic milk bags, but in Saskatchewan milk is only sold in cartons and jugs, so I've taken to bagging all of my produce when I buy it and re-using those. The produce bags are still really durable compared to the regular plastic grocery bags, I've found.

Re: huh

[ninetydegrees]

I have no idea what plastic milk bags or produce bags look like. :) In my country, the only bags you get in supermarkets or grocery shops are the flimsy, thin ones for produce/meat/fish, and reusable, very big ones for the rest. We do get very little ones in drugstores and they would be perfect for garbage-freezing but I don't go there very often. :/