The good, the bad, and the ugly...

Yep. It's been a while since I posted anything up here... I've been busy, but not busy enough to not post. I guess I ran out of steam for a little while... Maybe it was getting caught up with the holidays... I dunno... Anyway... Here I am, once again! Lucky you...

I do have some god news! We received a notice from our apartment complex that they will begin a recycling program at the beginning of 2008! It's great news! I hope that no one abuses this, and we can keep it. I understand that they've had some issues in the past, and have had to discontinue the program before. This leads me to my next topic (and rant)... Trash.

Let me start a quick rant about something that's not exactly Eco-related, but still touches on the topic.

I walked out to our dumpster area last night to throw away our garbage... Our dumpster area is maybe a 10'X20' cement block "room". 4 walls, no ceiling (it's outside) with maybe 5 or 6 dumpsters... So, I open the door and try to walk in, but someone has dumped all of their plastic trash and shopping bags right inside the door. Now, sometimes the dumpsters get full and there's really no where to throw your trash other than on someone else's trash on the ground in our "dumpster room".
This wasn't the case last night... The dumpsters were not even half full. So, I have to step over someones trash to get to a dumpster so I can throw mine away, properly... Why are people so damned lazy??? I admit that I'm pretty lazy, but this was ridiculous... What would possess you to just throw your shit right inside the door, and not have any courtesy for anyone else??? I guess that's the world we live in, and the reason our landfill is full of recyclable materials.

I'm going to be really bummed if people start throwing their garbage in the recycle containers that are being provided; just so they don't have to walk the extra 20' to the dumpsters...

Anyway... I'm very happy that we get to recycle on-site, and not have to drive our recyclables around, anymore...

-S