Recently our office converted to a recycling scheme, and we
require our staff to separate their recyclables from their non-recyclables.
Most of them do it; some don’t. This shocks me. Don’t they care? Don’t they understand?
That’s one issue. Then there’s the issue of the volume of the garbage we produce.
Partner and I, between the two of us, produce at least three
or four thirteen-gallon bags of garbage per week. What is it? Newspapers. Food waste. Food containers and boxes. Wrapping paper.
Plastic bottles. Junk mail. Waste tissues, and paper towels, and napkins. I
took a bag out to the garbage this evening, and it weighed at least ten pounds,
and it was maybe two days’ worth of kitchen garbage.
Partner and I aren’t doing this on purpose, I swear. Nothing
is going into the garbage that we can reuse or repurpose. I try to do
everything I can to reduce waste. I minimize wrapping. We take our own reusable
bags to the grocery store. I buy perfectly normal groceries.
And yet we’re producing garbage like hooligans.
What the hell’s wrong
with us?
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