I use on the order of a half gallon of gas a month. I'd say a village dweller has a larger carbon footprint in firewood alone. I re-use grocery bags for trash

I use on the order of a half gallon of gas a month. I'd say a village dweller has a larger carbon footprint in firewood alone. I re-use grocery bags for trash and use no trash bags. I reuse any disposable plastic I can, at least once. That cut's my plastic output roughly in half compared to other people around me. I've taken to using a water pick now, so a bag of those picks takes me maybe a year to use. That's miniscule. I don't know if you've ever been to a third world country, but plastic bags even at small street shops are all the rage. I probably dispose of less plastic than they do. And to top that off, most developing nations don't have the infrastructure to handle it, and you see the bags clogging up waterways and blowing around, it's a big problem. So the direct pollution, even if I used more plastic, doesn't compare because most of the plastic I use goes to a landfill, not the local creek that's used as a sewer.