This year has been the year of eCommerce. I am completely shocked by how much online shopping I have done this year and it really was not my plan at all. The 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic has changed the entire way my life works. I know work from home and pretty much been stuck in my home unless an emergency is taking place. Never in my life did I think that my own state for putting me on house arrest for committing no crime, but here we are and what it has caused no one could have foreseen. When I go to my front door each day and pick up my Amazon package it saddens me. Because I know that I am going to pick it up, cut it open and toss the box in my garage. It really is a fact of life that now my garage is a box pit and it has taken me a few months to learn how to get rid of all those boxes. I want to do it the most ethically responsible way and that took some time to figure out. See my trash company only allows us to have one recycle can each week. That means that all those corrugated boxes have to fit inside a small space. So the task to clean out my garage began and I will take you through my process on how I did it. It seems so simply, but in reality, the amount of work added on top of my normal trash routine was cumbersome. I first just started to throw full cardbaord boxes into my recylce trash can and I could fit anywhere from 2 to 6 inside. This would have been perfect on a normal week, but since the pandemic, I am getting 2-6 boxes a day. That means that I am constantly running a surpluss of packages that are stackign up in my garage. So after a week, I knew this was not going to work. I started to work on different ways to figure the problem out but time won and I stimply gave up. Alas, my family could no longer take not having a useable garage and then I had to find a way to get rid of it all and not just put them in a trash bag to go to a land fill. All of those cardboard boxes did not need to go to a land fill I wanted them to go and be recycled because everyone is going through the same thing and I didn't want to contribute to the harmful ways of huritng out earth. I want to promote sustainability. I think this was the best thing to do and it was worth the time. So I started to use my hands to break down the packages and fit them in teh trash can. I was only able to do this for a few boxes because it gave me paper cuts and blisters. It also left me with uneven tears in the packages and they didn't fit in the can very efficiently. So the next obvious step was to go out and get some scissors. This was a great plan and it worked really well for a long while. This is a good way to stay on top of the problem and I suggest starting here.
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