Recycling Mama

My Happy Civic Duty
This is a quick post to the world about the joys and personal satisfaction that is inherent in recycling. I just walked the green (recycling) trash can to the curb to sit sturdily by our black (other garbage) trashcan for morning pickup. How cool is it that the green can is so full this week that I had to sneak across the street and put our "overflow recycling" in an unsuspecting neighbors green can?! And the black garbage can is only 1/4 full.



Just so you know, Scully and I are actually not creating that much trash each week to fill the green can, but I am bringing home big garbage bags full of shredded office paper to recycle... to say the least, I've caught the bug.



It is true though that we probably are now recycling 2/3 of what we used to throw out each week! That's a lot of waste that doesn't end up in a landfill. Surely all this recycling makes up for my sacred 20 minute hot showers that aren't going away any time soon...