did you know:- in a lifetime, the average american will throw away 600 times his/her adult weight in garbabge, leaving a legacy of 90,00 lbs. of trash for his/her children.
- americans throw away enough office paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from l.a. to nyc.
- americans throw away enough aluminum every 3 mos. to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
yikes! so i got that info. from this city of lakewood newsletter we received in the mail. stats like that sometimes makes me feel like our recycling efforts aren't really going to make much of a difference when there aren't enough people being made aware of the importance of recycling. yes...i know i'm sounding like some crazed hippy, but trash isn't going away. sometimes i get frustrated because i just don't see enough folks around here recycle. the service is free (unlike in seattle where you have to pay for waste & recycling services), all you have to do is sort the stuff and put it out on the curb. not hard, but not too many people we know around here do it. admittedly, i've been known to pick out beer bottles, empty soup cans, and pieces of paper out of our trash can so that i can put it in our recycling. go ahead...i know i'm sounding like a tree hugger, but i just had to get that out. like they taught me in school: recycle-reduce-reuse!
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