NO TRASH MONDAY- I have to admit the first "No Impact Week" day did not go well. I probably produced more trash this Monday than I have any other day. I did try to not produce as much trash but being somewhat sick made it hard. I will say while I was drinking my Chai tea from Starbucks and throwing a huge cardboard box full of trash away (by the end of the day you wouldn't believe how much trash we had) I was aware that I should be trying to conserve more. When my roommate and I filled up our "box-o-trash" (that's what we called it) and brought it to the dumpster I felt a little bit uneasy about how much plastic we were throwing away so we took out the bottles. We took out a total of 13 water bottles and two plastic bottles of Sprite. That was between the two of us and over the course of two days. We recycled our bottles and are considering recycling more.
It's going to be one very long week.


TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY- Living on campus and not having a car really stinks (but for this little project it worked out for the good). My sister and I would share a car when I lived at home. She is still in high school so it makes more sense to let her have it while she has to drive places and run errands for my mom.With that said I walk everywhere! Since my dorm is center of campus I don't have to take the bus. Overall I did really well today!


FOOD WEDNESDAY- I normally don't eat breakfast and grab something quick to eat from the liar and go back to my room for lunch. Then for dinner my roommate and I go to a dining hall and get something to go again. Today, still being sick, I didn't feel like going out (so i guess it kind of helped me to not have an impact). So for lunch I had PB&J and for dinner, instead of my "to-go" box, I had a microwaveable dinner tray. I'm not sure if that has any help on the environment but I didn't use any Styrofoam to-go boxes today.



SAVE ENERGY THURSDAY- I really made an effort today to make sure when I left my dorm for class I turned off the lights. I normally just leave my straightener plugged in as well as my phone charger and coffee machine. Today as I left for the day I unplugged the power strip from underneath my desk. I must say though I forgot to turn the TV off this morning when I left but I made sure I turned it off along with the lights when I left for the day for New Braunfels.



SAVE WATER FRIDAY- Found out yesterday I have strep throat. So I have to say today being completely sick was the worst day to have to try and save water. I was so not in the mood to take a short shower. I did try and did cut it down by 4minutes. Instead of my typical 17 minute shower it was more like 13 minutes. Had I not been so sick I probably could have cut it down to 5 minutes.



Bridget Dooley