Green living and Disability?

Being Earth day and all I thought I would ask how have you found a balance between disability and green living.
I always feel guilty that I rely more on a car to get me where I need to go. I try to walk when I physically can but lately that hasn't been very often. Although other amputees can ride bikes I've found it very difficult to do so myself.
I try to recycle what I can but lugging loads of recycling to the depot is hard to do by myself.
I try to compost but once winter hits it's harder for me get out in the yard with the snow and ice.
I put some of the lights and electrical items on a timer so they shut off automatically at night. That way I don't have to fumble on crutches trying to get into hard to reach places to turn off things.

What are some of the challenges you face trying to be environmentally friendly with a disability? How have you over come them?

My father's kidneys have failed him. He is on a kidney machine twelve hours a day. Many cardboard boxes bring supplies to us. All of the boxes go to the Masonic Lodge so they can take orders of soups to their customers during the winter. In the summer the boxes are here for anyone that is moving or knows someone moving. Instead of taking charitable items in plastic garbage bags we use his boxes. The only garbage bags he uses are for sharps. Everything else he discards goes to the bin in a box.

Personally, I have always admired power chair/scooter users as very green! Sure, those take power too, but many ABs would take the car the mile and a half to the grocery store. Power chair users or folks who use scooters for mobility just head out on their own fuel efficient, green vehicles and get to have a giggle at the people trying to park SUVs in a crowded lot.

Do what you can, may it be a little or a lot and the Earth will thank you. Every little bit helps.

My eye drops are a huge waste of the environment, but as I have to use single-use vials, I burn through 400 of those tabs every month- I recycle these, and while 400 tabs might take up very little space for a single month, I can imagine how much it adds up for a lifetime of having a 0 second tear break up time.

I used to use pill baggies for my daily doses, but I switched to using the big plastic tubs instead- small change, not a real impact on my daily life, but it has to add up some time.

I drink bottled water, again not by choice- I recycle the bottles.

Braille paper was a major problem- a page of 'regular' text instantly becomes several double-sided braille pages. When I stopped using paper for everything but short notes, my use went from several 500-sheet bundles each month (I love to read) to just maybe 200 sheets a year. Of course, the trade off is using a braille display, which does consume electricity.

I tend to forget lights on, especially since a lot of the lights in my house are red- so that other people can see well enough to walk around, but I wont be bothered by the light. I cannot tell that they're on at all, so if someone else isn't home.. well, who knows how many lights are on at once. We only keep 'normal' lights in the kitchen, office, and occasionally in the living room.

My electronics burn a lot of the fuel- I almost always have a computer or two, my pacmate, my mobile phone with a braille display on... That said, I don't leave a tv on all day for background noise (haha) I do try and 'do my bit' and remember to turn off everything nightly.

On that note, hearing aide batteries... godness, I burn through those puppies- but I don't wear my HAs very much any more, which is just mildly energy saving.

That's about all the disability related environment-murdering I can think of.