I have been looking at my little trash bin and trying to figure out what I am still throwing away. paper plates with food on them are torn up and placed in the compost. Just like coffee filters, they decompose nicely. It does take some time to rip paper plates into pieces though, and that is mildly irritating.

Plastic bags that come around frozen food and products like toilet paper end up chucked, but they at least are highly compressible and take up little landfill space.

I try to reuse food bag plastic to pick up dog poop when i go out walking with Kaylee.

One thing that is very wasteful i throw away - the doggy WeeWee pads. They are like flat diapers full of dog pee. There is nothing I can think to do with these.