- if you/your community recycle in weekly trash removal, something to note with regard to bottles, etc. if you drink a bottle of water and then toss the plastic remains into your recycle bin when done, it won't get recycled unless you remove the cap and discard with the regular trash. there you were thinking you were doing a tiny bit of good. not so much. remove those caps.
- another thing with regard to recycling and the environment - if you take your car through a laserwash or other type of organized carwash, the water gets reclaimed so you aren't completely and totally wasting resources. if you wash it in your driveway where the water surely just dries up or eventually drains to the sewer, you are slowly helping to deplete the strength of our ecosystem. thanks so much.
- 'my boyfriend's back' is a really unsettling and sort of terrifying comedy from 1993. the dude comes back from the grave, goes right back to school, and then tries to eat his friends because apparently that's what zombies do.
- i'm kind of newly obsessed with dragon sailboats. i mean, would you look at how sleek and beautiful? and what's more, they usually have a furling jib. sigh.
- three extremely new and popular songs are stuck in my head: 'i'll be your shelter' - miss taylor dayne, 'blame it on the rain' - those crazy little milli vanilli's, 'amie' - peter's prairie party... or something
- it's awkward when someone you hardly know/barely just met for real tells you it's all or nothing, now or never and then kind of storms off sort of mad when you stick to your guns on being the boss of you. what? maybe work on your delivery.
- pretty much everyone i know hates grapefruit and all that pertains to it. so... i thought i'd mention that finlandia makes an excellent grapefruit vodka (better than ruby red absolut) that you can mix with your secret ingredients when making a fun little batch of my special july surprise.
- i have a fever and the only cure is more creamy horseradish sauce on literally everything i can find.
ok. that should do it. good talk.
i love grapefruit vodka (especially with pink lemonade) and it's pure praire league. -steph
ReplyDeleteI love grapefruit and so does the missus. Who are you hanging out with??
ReplyDeleteseriously. who have i been talking to. grapefruit rules. we're old.
ReplyDeleteso you're saying if I don't remove the PLASTIC cap from the PLASTIC water bottle, they throw it away?
ReplyDeleteyes, skippy. from what i've read, there are a few reasons for this. first, the cap is made from a different type of plastic and would contaminate the resin being produced from the bottle's other type of plastic if mixed during the recycling process. also, and this is a source of mass confusion all over the land, different recycling centers have different guidelines so if you were going to recycle properly in your town, you would have to do research first. and let's face it, most americans are not going to do this. finally, some sites say that some centers have actual people sorting by hand and if they have to take the cap off, they'll just discard the entire package as it would take longer for them to have to de-lid things... not sure how much i believe this one. AND another thing. glass bottles have similar, but different guidelines.
ReplyDeletebut it really was all or nothing...
ReplyDeletethis post is still troubling me. what about the little plastic ring that breaks off the cap when you open it? those things are hard to get off. If not removed, is it not recycled?
ReplyDeleteexactly, skipp-ster. if you're that concerned, my best advice would be to contact your local recycling center to determine how to best handle the little plastic rings. or perhaps consult google...
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