2022-008 | DISPOSING PROPERLY EMPTY CANS

OUTDOORS COMMON SENSE TIPS: This is the proper way to dispose of empty cans: 

1. After emptying, turn it upside down the whole day or night so juices and fluids go down directly to the ground and gets cleaned off by ants.

2. When it is dried and cleaned, push the opened lid back inside with the thumb. That lid is jagged and sharp and slices through your thin garbage bags, no matter how many layers of plastic you use.

3. Step on the opened end with your foot. There is no resistance and it gets flattened easily.

4. Step on the unopened end and push it towards the middle. There is a slight resistance but shifting your weight forward gets it flattened nevertheless.

First seen in Facebook

October 27, 2018

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I JUST HOPE THIS WILL find itself in school curriculums and outdoor-ethics seminars. This is a product of judicious observations and experiences that I have compiled through my many years of ranging our mountains and in wilderness areas and devising ways to remove harm and to help in listening the noise created by real and pseudo environmentalists against real and pseudo “mountaineers”.

When I joined a formal outdoors club in the early ‘90s, my outdoors awareness and values were shaped by what I witnessed. Most often, people would never carry their garbage bags inside their backpacks. Why should they? It stems from the fact that all the camp wastes are there and what if the flimsy bag burst open inside? What misfortune? 

Because of hygiene, they would rather piggyback the garbage bags outside of their backpacks or carry it with either hands. Razor-sharp blades of grass turn these thin garbage bags to smithereens that disemboweled the contents down the trail without the person’s knowledge. Or is it really grass blades that turned it inside out? Possibly but not all.

Opened cans, which still has leftover juices and feasted on by large flies, are deposited inside these flimsy black garbage bags, hoping its unpleasant appearance are forever buried away from your eyes. These same opened cans are half-heartedly flattened leaving the jagged lids as is and giving it the space to shred the plastic bag or flesh. 

Flattening properly increases storage space inside the garbage bag based on the instructions written in italics above. The properly flattened cans can now be placed safely in even the flimsiest garbage bag. You can even place that garbage bag inside your backpack. You just removed the hygiene issue with this method. 

Another plus is you just made space for more garbage to be taken in a garbage bin or a garbage collection truck with this kind of citizen’s initiative. What is more, you would be entitled to a prayer of thanks from a street scavenger who makes his living selling off junked cans to recycling depots and junkshops. You just made his life easy. 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.