Monday, January 18, 2010

Reusing Trash

Imagine if a rich man died and left his huge house to his only child. The child, upon receiving the keys to the house, wandered through the rooms to check on the state of things.

In every room that he entered there was a huge pile of trash, paper, metal, Styrofoam, wood, plastic, even old food. In the one of the rooms, the trash was actually on fire, a slow, soldering burn that filled the entire hallway with smoke.

Not exactly the type of inheritance that one would hope for, huh?

Like it or not, we are piling up mountains of trash that will take far longer than our human lifespans to decompose. Essentially, we are ensuring an inheritance of garbage for future generations.

Everybody learned in elementary school how to get rid of extra trash. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

So, today, have some fun with justice.

Rescue some toilet paper tubes and make something goofy out of them or cut up some clean plastic wrappers and use them to stuff something. If you would normally throw it away...it's fair game!

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