‘My wife and I have whole discussions about sorting waste’
After endless discussions, helpful notes and many suggestions, it seems that these parents’ enduring resolutions do not apply to the entire family.
Verena (36), mother of Puck (8) and Pien (6):
“When in addition to the black wheelie bin for residual waste, the green one for organic waste and the blue one for paper, an orange one for plastic also had to be rolled in our carefully designed garden, my wife had her veto: there were limits to our green behaviour. .
I completely agreed with her on the interior, but from an environmental point of view I had to swallow. She and our children are already unable to put their waste in the right bin. We have whole discussions about how juice packs do not belong with the old paper, but with the residual waste, and the staples and papers of the tea bags are not allowed in the green bin, but the rest of the bag is.
In the kitchen I even hung pictures above the three-bin Brabantia to make clear what should be deposited where. In vain. Cursing, I fish the bubble wrap envelopes from the old paper and the empty crueslid boxes from the residual waste every day. But thanks to my wife, the children now have an educational job every week thanks to the plastic handing in. The upbringing still succeeds a little bit.”
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Merel (31), mother of Stef (2):
“In my naive motherhood fantasies, my future child quietly and sweetly played with wooden toys. When that quickly turned out to be hysterical colored plastic with sirens in reality, I immediately bought a set of battery chargers. The noise was up to that point, but at least environmentally friendly.
“Time and again he throws the batteries in the trash too”
For my husband, those chargers remain a blind spot to this day. Time and again he comes home with jumbo packs of disposable alkaline, and throws them in the trash after use too. I threatened to throw his cell phone after it; He doesn’t buy a new battery every time, does he?”
This article appears in Kek Mama 10-2022.
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