Happy Earth Day! As you may know, yesterday was Earth day. Normally I don't get all excited about holidays based on political agendas, but this year I am a little excited. You see I just learned our local recycling company is now accepting those plastic tubs. You know, the kind you buy yogurt, cottage cheese and sour cream in.
Growing up, recycling was our secondary religion thanks to my very responsible dad who would scour our garbage cans and remove any potentially recyclable material and place them in the proper container to either recycle at the curb or at a local drop off. No empty toilet paper roll was over looked. Now as an adult I do the same thing...Dan throws a cereal box in the garbage, I secretly dig it out and put it in our recycling bin. So you can guess it just kills me to throw away those plastic tubs. I don't even like watching other people do it...yes, I am THAT weird, okay! Anyway, I refuse to throw them in the garbage, so for the past year since we've moved here I have been storing them, cleaned out, under the sink until I could take them to the proper recylcing facility. Then the other day I read in the local paper that I could now add them to the recycle bin...I was so excited. Now I have so much room under the kitchen sink, I think I might store something useful under there now.
Thanks to pressure from consumers, big companies like Starbucks and Safeway are no longer going to sell dairy products made with rBST, a growth hormone found in non-organic milk. I also heard that California dairy farmers have until August to stop using the hormone or risk a high penalty to have their milk shipped to alternate markets. I tend to buy organic milk anyway, but at least now it will be easier to find. It is also worth mentioning that our own Tillamook dairy hasn't used hormones in their cows for a while now.
Speaking of dairy products...mark your calendars for May 2...Baskin and Robins is having a 31 cent scoop night from 5 pm to 10 pm.That's all for now!
2 comments:
I am glad to hear that your recyclers now pick up the tubs, I hope that ours starts doing that soon.
With just the two of us here now recycling is much easier, I usually recycle something right after I get done with it. Your mother thinks I am a little nuts...and maybe she is right, but I hate to throw anything out that I can get recycled.
Keep up the good work!
Love,
Dad
You recyclin' lady you!
I want you to know that I now feel guilty throwing away my tin cans, and anything glass!!!!
I was always pretty good about getting plastics and cardboard out but...now....I got to step it up!
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