Post #9 Global Warming and Recycling (Part 2)

Welcome back everyone! I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of the Warm the Globe movement this week. Collin Maki is one of the most devote followers and advocates for global warming you'll find. During the course of our conversation it was brought it to my attention that our segment on recycling (post #2) might need a little closer in-depth breakdown. Todays note features a bunch of interesting photographs you wont want to miss! So, without further ado...

Global Warming and Recycling (Part 2)
Shocking reminder: The average person spends THREE years of their life sorting through garbage trying to decide what they can recycle!

As mentioned in our last recycling conversation, the whole process requires a lot of effort while giving nothing in return. Glass and other non-recyclable plastics aren't picked up at the curb. That means you have to store them somewhere in your house and take them to your local drop off point. It's also WAY too complicated. I told you how in my neighborhood you can recycle a cereal box but not a pizza box, a newspaper but not a napkin, a cell phone but not a plastic bag etc.

Collin gave me to a catalog (made from 100% recycled material of course) mailed to him by a company who makes recycle bins, benches and other things from 100% recycled plastic products. Out of interest I logged on to their website to see how much their products cost. My findings were incredible. Because recycling wastes lots of time, money and energy, it costs quite a bit to take a million empty milk jugs and turn them into a park bench. The cost of their products must be so astronomically high because they didn't offer any prices. Instead they listed how many milk jugs it cost to build the particular item.  Lets take a look:

Nice, eh? And it's only going to cost you 840 gallons of milk for one. What's a gallon of milk going for these days you ask? about $3.08. You do the math. That 100% recycled bin is going to cost you $2,587 folks! Woah Betty!

Or you could get a metal garbage can like this for $116.

 It doesn't take an idiot to see the savings here. Well, never mind. I guess it does because people are buying them!

The MOST annoying part of recycling is probably the time wasted separating it all. (i.e. plastics from paper, compost, aluminum etc.). Take a look at this ridiculous picture:

 Got some garbage you've gotta get rid of on the go? Good luck. You're going to sit here for ten minutes trying to place your trash with a particular shape. It reminds me of this old childhood game:

I don't have time for games. I just need to throw my trash away and get on with my day.Who in their right mind would pay 1224 gallons ($3,769.00) to have this recycle game installed at their workplace?

One of the shockers with recycling is that it caters to the tall. Do you want to recycle but you're only 5'7''? Good luck reaching the top of this recycling bin:

I hope you've got a friends who's at least 6'6'' so they can recycle your crappy Creed CD's for you. Maybe if you jump you can recycle your old ink jet cartridges on your own.  Or you could throw them away and not have to worry about your vertical leap. Also, who's going through cell phones so fast that they deem it necessary to install a recycling bin for them??

When you were growing up how many of you used to shoot your trash in the garbage can like a basketball? I think we've all done the play-by-play under our breath. "Three seconds on the clock, Stockton dribbles to the top of the 3-point line, two seconds, Stockton fakes left, goes right, ONE SECOND LEFT! HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!!" Good luck doing that with this basketball-hating recycling bin:

It's kind of hard to score with a lid on the hoop. Good job recycle guys. You just destroyed the imagination of hundreds of young kids.

Are you guys starting to get the drift here? Recycling is a pain. Life is fast paced and hectic. You don't have time to run around sorting out garbage. This picture illustrates the pains of recycling perfectly:

My method is SOO much easier! You'll save three years of your precious life if you'd do these three simple steps:

Go my friends. Throw your garbage away. Out of sight out of mind. Remember: If recycling was really that important landfills would pay hobo's to sort through the piles for us. I mean, they already smell like a landfill. Everybody wins here.