I seem to have a Green 'agony-of-the-month', and most recently I have been trying to accept my no longer recycling at the curb. I have been able to improve in some areas to make up for it, but it still bugs me that I'm just tossing stuff in the trash that should be recycled. Sometimes I just stare into the kitchen wastebasket and see all those opportunities missed.
Then a voice spoke to me from that wastebasket. Well, no, not really, but it did occur to me that there were a lot of food packages in there that weren't all for 'essential' nutrition. Yes, I realized, if I bought less food, that wastebasket would be less full, and so would I.
I have preached the 'precycling' sermon before, but now I have added it to my landfill-reduction program, even if it's just for junk food. I know you've been telling yourself to stop buying, and eating, all that packaged stuff, but now you have more than just a waistline to worry about. At least start buying things in more logical packaging, like fresh fruit instead of in cans or plastic. The wastebasket told me to do it.
Posts
