I’m exactly the same, and it was always 2%. I was always a slow eater, I’d always be hoping and waiting for the moment my parents would leave the room for a min so I could run to the sink and pour it down the drain. I asked as an adult if they had ever realized I had been dumping it if they left and somehow they never suspected.

Regular recycling isn’t even an option where I live. You can literally only get a regular trash container. Sticks/leaves etc they’ll take if you bring it to a center but there’s no collection for that either.

This is correct and something I learned about recently. The style of a lot of middle eastern type clothing is all very loose and baggy for both men and women, because of that, the color of the clothing doesn’t affect it’s heat intake. It’s thought that a lot of clothing styles came to be because of what was available to use to weave them. If I’m remembering correct, the desert areas had a lot of wool to work with. Wool is an insulator… So in order to wear it in that climate they wove it very loose with a lot of layers and baggyness. I’m not an expert on the matter though, so I might be mistaken

I use the belly sleep pillow from Amazon and it’s the best I’ve found after trying all sorts. It reminds me of one of those thin Oreos, which… When you sleep on your stomach, thinness apparently works wonders. I’m happy not to be suffocated by pillow fluff and it’s very rare for me to get a crick in my neck anymore