Went to a DSAC (Dining Services committee) meeting today. I brought up composting and they informed me that once their planned summer renovations are complete, at least two additional dining locations on campus will offer composting or compost-friendly bowls and utensils! I pushed a bit more on the subject, and they admitted that the biggest hurdle was the extra cost of the compost-friendly materials. Wish there was a good way to address or mitigate this concern. 

Air travel day today. SAS gave us plastic bottles of water & juice. I failed on my composting, 5 minute outdoor walk and avoiding disposables objectives, but surprised the flight attendant by carrying off my empty plastic bottles for recycling.  Will email them to suggest that the airline should collect them separately for recycling, it'd be easy enough to do and Scandinavia is generally much more enviro-conscious than most. 

I am Sustainable Pittsburgh is helping me to better declutter my life!

Real (non-disposable) crockery & silverware at breakfast should be a selling point for hotels.  I would pay extra for it.  I so dislike styrofoam cups, yuk. 

Just got an email from Green Mountain Energy (my electricity supplier via Duquesne Electric): saved over 2000 pounds of CO2. Presumably this is since I made the switch about 1.5 years ago. 

My meal prep for this week is 100% meatless

What a great daily reminder of the little things that can make a big difference!

so far so good! this is a great idea!

This is a really neat idea for encouraging people to properly dispose of their trash: let them exchange it for credit towards public transportation (i.e., metro card). https://wtop.com/asia/2018/09/taiwanese-use-new-machines-to-exchange-trash-for-cash/