Trying a zero-packaging approach for household staples meant weighing out oats and grains into my own jars at the co-op each week, which trimmed my curbside bin noticeably. Yet the shift also highlighted how many unavoidable single-use items still slip through, like the thin films around produce or the occasional delivery that arrives wrapped anyway. I tracked the weekly weights for a while and the totals fell, but I cannot tell whether that local drop actually scales against regional waste streams or if it mainly shifts the burden elsewhere in the supply chain.