Why do you take the newspapers to the Humane Society? And other
shredded paper? I might start doing that if it helps the organization.

Scott
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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:10 -0500, Scott Granneman wrote:
>> No, you don't. Of course not.
>>
>> I've never said you should leave behind everyone else. But we have to
>> recognize certain changes that are inexorable and speeding up. And at
>> what point DO we stop including CD-ROM's? When dialup is only 20%?
>> 10%? 5%? 1%?
>>
>> And we also have to reduce, reuse, & recycle. :)
>
> Oh trust me, my household does ... to the point that the weekly trash
> pickup is usually one small (think standard grocery-bag-sized) sack.
> Kitchen scraps go to the worm composting bins, rainwater fills two
> 55-gallon drums for watering plants and gardens, newspapers go to the
> Humane Society (along with all those stupid pre-approved credit card
> applications, which get shredded with the other paper documents), glass
> and other metals go out with the weekly recycling pickup ... grass
> clippings fertilize the lawns, yard waste goes to the big outside
> compost bin.  And old computer stuff gets recycled with ByteWorks! (if
> it's too old, it goes to W.I.T.S.)
>
> It's a good question, when to cut things off.  And of course, neither of
> us got into how quickly such software on CDs becomes obsolete!
>
> Although, speaking of reduce, reuse & recycle ... I read recently that
> someone has come up with another use for old CDs -- evidently when hung
> from strings, they are good at keeping elephants out of crops.  They can
> also be used as a signaling device if you are ever lost out in the high
> desert ....
>
> Theresa
>
>
> >
>

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