Recent Musings:
Ring the bells, ring the bells.
She wants to roll in academia!
Hey! Let's recycle!
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Have you ever realized how much you can recycle? It really is amazing to me when I stop and sort items for the recycling bins because I never had any idea how much reusable material I was throwing away. For instance, cardboard and paper ranges from pizza boxes to toilet paper rolls to half and half containers to newspapers to old devotional pamphlets to junk mail to ibuprofen boxes. Bottles and cans consists of my contact solution bottles, my ibuprofen bottles, my juice bottles, my milk jug containers, my pop and water bottles, my apple sauce jar, the plastic that's around new cds, pizzas or ibuprofen containers, my spaghetti sauce cans, my soup cans, my tuna fish cans...and on and on and on it goes.
Of course, I didn't start doing this intentionally. As Matt and I were attempting to dispose of cardboard boxes from my move, a man stopped us at the dumpster and said, "You know there's recycling, right, in the dumpster across campus?" Oh! We acted so glad that he told us while afterwards we muttered because we had been caught NOT recycling and we really didn't care if we recycled or not. Yet since this confrontation I've made a point to separate my waste into recycling bags and deliver it to the recycling dumpsters across campus. And honestly, I'm still amazed how much I CAN recycle, if I choose.
My point? Think about this post the next time you throw something in the trash. I know the state I moved from and many other areas are not so progressive in their recycling efforts, yet I'm sure there are opportunities to be wastefully responsible if you're as aware of this realization as I now am.