Shasta
On his shell he holds the earth.
Well, humans are the most destructive thing on Earth. Maybe he was just trying to help....
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Factory farms are one of the biggest polluters on earth. Love the planet? Stop eating animals, or at least hunt for them yourself as nature intended.
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...would love to bag me a side of bacon...
Shasta
On his shell he holds the earth.
So, since a lot of people are talking about recycling and I happen to work in the plastics industry, I thought I'd shed a little insight.
A lot of things have the little recycle logo on them. This does NOT mean they can be recycled.
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It really just depends on what your city/town/state can provide.
Also, a little known thing about recycling - often if something is treated, coated, or decorated in some way, it can't be recycled. For example, there is a company that makes shiny metalized plastic utensils. They have the recycling logo. Well, the plastic underneath can be recycled but once it has the treatment on it (called vacuum metalization), it can't be. And when plastics are mixed they can't be recycled, such as the very popular plastic, ABS/SAN. It's a mixture of two plastics. Once they are mixed they can't be un-mixed to recycle. Think oil and water.
So the moral of the story is this - stay away from plastic as much as you can. Even if it says it's recyclable.
A lot of things have the little recycle logo on them. This does NOT mean they can be recycled.
The Numbers on Plastic Bottles: What do Plastic Recycling Symbols Mean? | NationofChange
It really just depends on what your city/town/state can provide.
Also, a little known thing about recycling - often if something is treated, coated, or decorated in some way, it can't be recycled. For example, there is a company that makes shiny metalized plastic utensils. They have the recycling logo. Well, the plastic underneath can be recycled but once it has the treatment on it (called vacuum metalization), it can't be. And when plastics are mixed they can't be recycled, such as the very popular plastic, ABS/SAN. It's a mixture of two plastics. Once they are mixed they can't be un-mixed to recycle. Think oil and water.
So the moral of the story is this - stay away from plastic as much as you can. Even if it says it's recyclable.
I wash and reuse my disposable plastic cups until they crack and can’t be used anymore. I must be sick!
Shasta
On his shell he holds the earth.
After I started working in packaging five years ago, I do the exact same thing. It's not sick to not want to destroy the place that you live and that sustains you!
I was like .... "oh no..."
And then.... 
It's terrible really and very true... but my 'funny' just couldn't stay inside. (I know, I'm horrible...)
I know. The ending is like "what?!".I was like .... "oh no..."
It's terrible really and very true... but my 'funny' just couldn't stay inside. (I know, I'm horrible...)
"Look at the flowers, birdies, look at the flowers..."
This.
We're not charged for collections (not directly, anyway; we have a thing called Council Tax, which is collected by the local authority and goes towards paying for the police, fire service, and civic stuff), but most councils, in their wisdom, decided to only collect rubbish on a fortnightly basis - without making sure there was adequate infrastructure to replace the 'lost' service. (Recycling was already a requisite, but for most parts of the country, it was limited - paper and glass only for the most part, and even then it could be a case of 'No "shiny" paper or coloured glass'.)
Needless to say it didn't go well. Fly-tipping was and is a scourge in many a town, and the countryside...it's not uncommon to see bags of rubbish and even old armchairs or discarded sofas in lay-bys.
What it needed was a proper, well-considered plan of action to provide the necessary facilities and ease of access and then the implementation of new methods. What we got instead was much more of a 'grab-ass' way of going about it, authoritarian BS coming down because of the need to meet arbitrary targets by whenever, which in every case have ultimately been missed by the proverbial country mile.
Of course, the 'ordinary people' get to carry the can for 'not doing enough'. But tell me, how can anyone do more when the means are lacking?
It's a case of the Seven Ps, but the people who really matter couldn't organise a [soiree] in a brewery.
Grandpa - Thanks for that. I laughed 'til I cried, yet had a moment of feeling unutterably sad at the same time.
It's nice and all, but...
1) Where's the field come from?
2) Where have the people come from?
3) What are they living on?
4) Are they really people?
5) The human race would still be on Earth (the thing floating above the field), so...
6) For all we know, the Earth is only a few feet in diameter, according to the perspective of something else.
7) For all we know, our Universe is only a few feet in diameter, according to the perspective of an outside observer (meaning our universe is a small object inside a larger universe - like a space hopper in a back garden).
I can't help it. I have to ask the questions that occur. 
But your version has it. When we try to step back and see Earth objectively, it's clearly a wondrous place, and even if we eventually reach other worlds around other stars, this little blue dot will still be Home and precious.
But your version has it. When we try to step back and see Earth objectively, it's clearly a wondrous place, and even if we eventually reach other worlds around other stars, this little blue dot will still be Home and precious.
Yes, I know.....I can't help it. I have to ask the questions that occur.
But your version has it. When we try to step back and see Earth objectively, it's clearly a wondrous place, and even if we eventually reach other worlds around other stars, this little blue dot will still be Home and precious.
Shasta
On his shell he holds the earth.
That's how marathons work. There's someone who's job it is to come clean that up.Define irony.
And at least the cups wern't styrofoam.