GREEN UPDATES!
Look under your yogurt cup. Look under your bottle of water. See those numbers? They're recycling guidelines. See those blue bins? Recycling. And if you're lucky, maybe your clothes will have a blurb about post-consumer content. Recycling again!
Did you know at Yoshinoya stores in Japan and Taiwan there's a multi-part process for "throwing away" your food? Take your soft drink cup. Step One: dump out the liquid and ice into a specialized fountain. Step Two: Remove the straw and place it in its special slot in the wall. Step Three: Toss the lid into another hole. Step Four: Rinse the cup and then stack it in the specialized holders.
Recycling has become a pervasive topic in the US of A, especially in grade schools. In my high school, the Student Government Association members took on the important task of taking out the recycling, and we had a whole score of recycling-related clubs. I've just entered college, and the recycling program is even more comprehensive: we have separate bins for office paper and newspaper! Saving the trees, oh yeah!
I will be developing my ideas about recycling, but before I reveal my grand plans, I would like to see how your ideas work starting at level zero. Please think and comment about the following:
1. What is recycling?
2. Where are you from?
3. How are you exposed to recycling every day? (sight and sound, but taste and smell may work also)
4. Why do(n't) you recycle?
posted by Greening It @ 6:54 PM
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