This is my front porch every Tuesday morning. Take a close look at this, because this is how much is NOT going into the landfill. I see in Japan, they take this plastic and turn it into oil. Here in the United States of America, where we are on the cutting edge, we throw it away. So I am trying to do my little part to saving this planet. My son tells me I am wasting my time and I had a male companion who told me any idiot can do this. I explained that I was looking at one idiot who couldn't, or wouldn't. He has plenty of time on his hands now and could take up a hobby if he would like! The son opted to save his recycles and deliver them to me a couple times a week. I will keep him!
This is where I dump everything out and sort it. Glass goes in the green bag. The black bag poking out of the white bag, came from my step daughters shop . Bag from the church is in there some where. Friend on the southside helps fill the green bag with beer bottles. The guy who picks this stuff up on Tuesday morning probably thinks I am a lush! Oh, well, he may be paid to think!
Here my tiny little foot is mashing things so it will get more in the bag!
And this is my front porch Tuesday afternoon. I sure feel better.
At any given time I can pop my trunk lid and you will see almost anything recyclable. Been hauling a big bag of clothes around for several weeks awaiting a trip to the Los Pobres. That should happen soonly. The other day I got a phone call that Big R had grain for the geese priced at 50% off with a limit of 5. As luck would have it, I had not unloaded the one bag I had picked up 3 days earlier. So off I went to Big R, completely forgetting that I had to pick the son and girlfriend up for lunch. Also I had not unloaded the recyle stuff I had picked up Sunday and Monday. So I had to call him and tell him they would need to meet me because I had 300 pounds of grain, a black trash bag of clothes, a black trash bag of newspapers and the spare tire in the trunk. In the back seat, I now had 4 white trash bags of recycle, 9 cloth bags for a trip to the grocery store, a carrying case of CD's, 4 packages to be mailed and a partridge in a pear tree!
So, to make a long story short, think about me next time you throw that plastic bottle in the trash, or that aluminum can, or that glass bottle, or the newspaper. If we all put our minds to it and get in the habit of poking it in a bag and calling Lou, we may last a few more minutes on this little spinning green ball I like to call home!
