Reduce, Reuse, Recycle<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThat was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s when we as a nation learned not to litter and that we shouldn\u2019t throw everything away. Of course, we still aren\u2019t very good at it (and see Coca-Cola vetoing the National Park Service\u2019s decision to ban disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon for evidence).
Out of these three options, we\u2019ve chosen the latter. Reduce, please. We\u2019re Americans. We don\u2019t fucking reduce. Reuse, what a pain.
So we recycle. It\u2019s great. I can…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recycling is cool, and I get a frisson of virtue every time I empty a trash can full of junk mail into my recycle bin, but the whole idea of not bothering to Reduce and Reuse bugs the heck out of me. Especially since Recycling isn't a panacea (and has, as the article notes, its … Continue reading “Mutter, Mutter, Recycle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17271,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/the-power-is-yours.html","url_meta":{"origin":23689,"position":0},"title":"The Power is Yours!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-May-10 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been on a recycling kick at home. 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