Humans generate a lot of trash and other waste. That's the way it is. Get used to it.
Some of this can be recycled and I'm all for that. If it can be economically reused than we ought to reuse it. (Enter the usual natural resources spiel here)
Currently in my AO we have two trash cans, one for honest to God trash and the other for recyclables. That is a good thing and I have no problem with that.
Rumor control now has it that the recyclables are going straight to the landfill because the Chinese won't buy them anymore because there's too much incidental trash in them.
While I have no proof, it does sound logical when you look at the people around you that don't really pay too much attention and can be a little careless.
If that's the case then why do we even bother to put out the recycling bin? Why does the contractor even issue us one?
When in doubt, follow the money. This means the trash contractor gets to utilize twice the equipment and charge twice the money for their services.
If this is really the case than one of two things should be done about it. Either have us throw everything in the trash and charge us less money or educate the public on what and how to discard recyclables. For example, while a used pizza box IS cardboard and cardboard is recyclable the fact that it's greasy makes it trash and therefore should not be thrown in the recycling container.
All I can really say about this is that if you are simply dumping everything into a landfill then reduce the price I am paying.
On the other hand, if you are in fact recycling even a reasonable portion of the recyclables then it's fair that I pay my current bill.
Fair is fair.
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Everyone knows the plains Indians were nomadic and moved from time to time. They moved pretty much for two reasons, food and pollution. For food they generally followed the buffalo herds.
Sometimes people like to make snide remarks about how they polluted their camps which is in itself probably true but often put in an unfair context.
Truth of the matter is that if, for example, they moved to an area and lived there for a while they could probably return to the same area several months later with no problems.
The pollution they created was all basically organic, food and human wastes that broke down fairly rapidly as nature is pretty self-cleansing with organics. It's not like they put huge amounts of plastics, heavy metals and chemicals into the ground. Most of the pollutants the Indians left behind were natural organics.
They could rotate from one area to another and reuse the same camp sites over and over with no problems at all after giving nature a while to clean it up.
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Speaking of nature healing itself, the bombers are returning to Tinian.
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