Plastic Reduction Challenge April

Well I went up in my plastic for this month but there are several things in here that I won't buy again now that I know what I know about plastic. Some of the stuff like the bottled water isn't mine or I should say wasn't generated by us. We had guests over, they are both #1's so they can be recycled in my area.

Here's the rub:

Weight 465g or 1 lb. 3/8 oz. (ouch, nearly doubled from March)

The list:

Food
1. 10 lb. bag of organic/fairtrade sugar ( I will continue to buy this since our bulk bin doesn't offer this)
2. 8 pack plastic wrap for olives from Costco. (won't buy again)
3. Ketchup bottle (I won't be buying this again it's a #7)
4. 3 water bottles (one's not pictured, don't buy ever)
5. plastic wine cork (we don't drink much wine and the wines we choose have a real cork stopper)
6. individually wrapped boca burgers (again, from costco and we won't be buying them anymore)
7. 2 cheese wraps, I've yet to find a good 'cheddar' not wrapped in plastic
8. Milk bottle caps and sealing rings (cheese, and yogurt making)
9. Foodsaver bags (lots of them, most aren't from me they contained blanched corn and I fed it to the chickens, so I adopted this plastic waste.)
10. A few ziplocks

Misc.
1. Envelope windows of course (still working on the junk mail reduction no thanks to USPS here.)
2. Wasp attractant bottle, came with the new wasp trap. (Yes the trap was needed, the bait isn't)
3. Broken hair clip
4. shipping tape and packing slip cover
5. baggie from hardware store for screws bought a long time ago.
6. Light bulb case for outside light, couldn't find one not wrapped in bomb proof plastic
7. Garden bulbs, came in a plastic sac.
8. Small baggie full of shrink wrap style plastic, a small story about that. I purchased reusable canning lids/rings from a company called Tattler  each of the sets came individually wrapped, which I was sad about but this should be a one time purchase. I'll post more about this later.

Some of this stuff I won't purchase again because of how it is packaged like the olives and the boca burgers. I am going to greatly reduce my use of the foodsaver bags and rely on my canning this year. Still lots of room for improvement.