Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Reduce, reuse, recycle, litter...

Found on the west edge of our front field:


Someone paid good money for this. And left it out to blow down the road and end up in my prairie grass.

Any guesses how many American recycled pop bottles went into making this? How much fuel oil was used to transport it from the factory to the store?

Exactly how many trees were "saved" by buying this and not using recyclable paper bags?

I'll bet that China used virgin polypropylene to make this. Probably floor sweepings from one of the plants that make the lead-coated toys they ship over here.

The "greenbag" website took over a minute to load the cute flash animation of green grass moving around. How many innocent electrons were enslaved to do that? How many grams of that eevil CO2 were released?

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