Ah, Earth Day the one day a year I get to make do-go people, go crazy...
A
Seattle worker picks through the garbage looking for food. No, he's
not homeless, he's looking for people who have too much food waste in
the garbage, so he can sticker their garbage cans, so everyone can
see how wasteful these people are.
At
first, I thought this was a joke...
Unfortunately
I've found what I believe is the origin and it seems real.
Here
are the links:
It
seems there is no crime.
All
schools are turning out Scholars.
Streets
smooth with no potholes.
Nice
to know someone is employed(sigh) to pick in the garbage?
Your
tax dollars at work, Seattle.
If
I overeat and become overweight, I'm shamed.
If
I throw away food, I'm shamed, heck, bring on the cake.
In
the article they say you could pass on the food(which reminds of a
story...stay tuned) Let's say someone gives me a liver and chocolate
marshmallow cake(gross, but someone out there...well you know...has
done something similar) in the Seattle story they make it sound like
I should pawn that sucker off on another person. Which all I can say
is, ewwww.
I
realize you could give it to a homeless person, but even they have
their limits and in some areas that is frowned upon, too.
I
notice they say to compost the items. OK? There are limits to that,
too.
Then
I thought...How do you do this in an apartment building?
Well,
while doing research on this story I found the following
...
it seems my old hometown is also composting. It seems that pick up is
weekly(all I can say is ewwww! I left my indoor bin for a couple of
days and believe me it wasn't pretty...ewwww)
Did
she just say indoor bin?(Gasp)
Now
full disclosure, I have had a compost pile/bin since moving to this
land of exile. I believe you should compost when possible and
if your want to. It
just makes sense put the vegetable scraps, etc. under the dirt(like
the older folks did) or in a compost bin...simple...free fertilizer.
And
(sigh) good for the earth. Yes, while everyone else has hard clay I
have soft fluffy dirt.
But
talk about the slippery slope of 'gubmint' intervention.
Back
when recycling was instituted in NYC, I didn't like it and I was in
my teens so I was prime territory(brainwashed by public school) for
loving the earth. In NYC, we had to rinse(in my world that means wash
because garbage laying around for a week attracts bugs) but even with
my brainwashing, I could never understand how using water and/or soap
to wash my garbage was going to save the earth?
At
the time, in little pea brain, I was looking at the the cost of
soap(money was tight), but my mom said 'it's the law' so we did it.
Now, as an adult the heating of the water and transportation of the
soap have been added to my little list(How many of us have been
preached to about how we need to shop local because of environmental
costs? Doesn't the soap use transportation?). Plus, I do remember
hearing about soap polluting.
Now
we have food recycling/composting.
So
wants the point of this, dunno. I do have a feeling something more is
happening.
Now
for me after all it is my blog...J
It
always annoys me when I have more garbage than actual dishes for a
meal. It's not that I use a lot of cans but for example one morning I
had the cats' dishes, my bowl, glass and mug plus the garbage: the
cat food cans, an empty milk, orange juice and half & half
container filled my sink, it looked as if I actually had cooked a
three course meal.
Some
days, I wonder if parents didn't have to rinse their garbage before
throwing it away would they spend more time supervising their kids or
playing with them? Would us childless be more involved in the
community? I know it's only minutes but it adds up.
But
back to the food...
I
know in religion it is a sin to waste food. Makes you think that
maybe if we stick to some of our tradition values we wouldn't need
'gubmint'.
Now
all you atheists stop jumping up and down,(sigh) at some point you
had a parent/grandparent/sperm & egg donor(can't deny that
one...oh, but I know some of you will) that said 'eat your peas(soy
protein) because kids are starving in_____(fill in the blank when I
was a kid it was China but maybe it was Ethiopia or India or
wherever)'
So
you've made it to the end I've got one more head-splitting one for
you.
Seattle's
trucks run on natural gas. OK. I can't help but wonder with all
those extra trips to pick up separate food, recycling(plastic and
paper), and garbage doesn't that help pollute the environment I mean
instead of one trip and picking it all up at once?
How
about those that drive their garbage to a dump, do they all have
energy efficient cars?
Just
wondering? Remember no good deed goes unpunished, especially if you
think it through.
Have
a wonderful Earth Day!
