Marc Erickson wrote:
>I tried to communicate this many times to my ex-girlfriend when we were
>still living together. She though that I was being obsessive because I
>ripped the paper labels off of tin cans (before they went into the
>recycling) and put them into the fine paper recycling bag , and did other
>small efforts.
I remember getting pretty upset when I visited my ex-boyfriend's parents
and found out they didn't recycle. He had, and I did, but they didn't-
even though the city they lived in had curbside pickup. He explained,
when I asked about it, that his parents didn't want to pay the extra 10
dollars a month to get the curb pickup. This family, incidentally, had
more nice stuff in their house than I'd ever seen in my life, three
regularly used cars (one for each family member), and cable TV. Ten
dollars was nothing... but they still wouldn't pay it... grrrr. I
remember driving through that neighborhood on trash day and seeing, oh,
six or seven bags of garbage out for every single house.
As I said, it was by my standards a wealthy neighborhood. One of the
reasons why I've never really bought into the "people trash the
environment because they're poor and don't know better/ can't help it"
theory. I've met street bums with more environmental sense.
Kat Feete
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"What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone?
The real work's already been done. You ought to make
yourself useful and go find the man who put the sword
in the stone in the first place."
--Terry Pratchett
