{"id":4,"date":"2010-06-01T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/06\/a-global-trash-edy.html"},"modified":"2010-06-01T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:23:46","slug":"a-global-trash-edy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/06\/a-global-trash-edy.html","title":{"rendered":"A Global Trash-edy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>All I<br \/>\nwanted to do was throw some trash away. I had a paper cup from coffee at the<br \/>\nairport and decided when I was done with it the prudent thing to do was throw<br \/>\nit away. Why Not? I&#8217;ve thrown stuff away all my life and it never was<br \/>\ncomplicated before.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>Here&#8217;s how it used to work. You had some trash, which was<br \/>\neasily distinguishable from non-trash because you were finished with it. It<br \/>\ncould be a paper cup I mentioned earlier or an already read newspaper or<br \/>\nmagazine. It could be a candy bar wrapper or a boarding pass you no longer<br \/>\nneed. Trash was obvious and a trashcan was provided in numerous places around<br \/>\nthe airports to make it easy to keep America clean.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>There was a campaign years<br \/>\nago that trained us not to be, and I quote, &#8216;Litterbugs&#8221;. I realize nowadays<br \/>\nthat would be a disparaging remark in regards to bugs but that&#8217;s beside the<br \/>\npoint. It was a simpler time when grown ups allowed a bear to tell them not to<br \/>\nplay with matches. We were no longer supposed to throw trash out of the car<br \/>\nwindow while driving anymore as well but instead to save it and put it in the<br \/>\nofficially designated trashcan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;It was easy once you got used to it. Like<br \/>\nwearing seatbelts it became a habit and once acquired it felt wrong not doing<br \/>\nit. But even though saving your trash until you found a trashcan was inconvenient,<br \/>\nat least it made things cleaner and made you feel responsible in honoring our environment.<br \/>\nIt was an easy way to do your part.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>So back to my story..I&#8217;m walking over to<br \/>\nthe trash can to throw my cup away and find out that this isn&#8217;t just any old<br \/>\ntrash can, but is a highly specialized can that was there not for trash, but<br \/>\nfor newspaper waste. Next to that was one for glass and plastic. Suddenly throwing<br \/>\ntrash away is no longer a simple task but instead is a recycle nightmare. They<br \/>\nwant to encourage us to keep the world clean but they want to do it in a way<br \/>\nthat is ridiculously impractical. I have some trash that I want to dispose of.<br \/>\nIs the paper from my cup equivalent to newspaper&#8230;paper? Where does gum wrappers<br \/>\ngo or McDonalds bags. All stuff that is sold in airports, they just no longer<br \/>\nmake it easy to dispose of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;Kind of a reverse scavenger hunt where you have<br \/>\nmany different objects to start with and now have the task of finding a proper<br \/>\ndisposal place. I went ahead and left my cup in the middle of the floor as a<br \/>\nsilent protest to all who have ears to hear. &#8220;You want me to recycle? Give me a<br \/>\ncan and you can sort it out.&#8221; Just how lazy are these eco-worshipers? You want<br \/>\nus to sacrifice; maybe you can get <i>your<\/i><br \/>\nlazy butts to the recycle Mecca and start sorting out the plastic from the<br \/>\nnewspapers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;Yeah, just as I thought, the new progressives believe in<br \/>\ncontrolling your life, as long as they don&#8217;t have to get dirty. You want to<br \/>\nstop liberal fascism? Make it a law they have to live by their own ideology.<br \/>\nOnce they have to wade through banana peels to save a tree downed by a<br \/>\nStarbucks cup, they&#8217;ll finally come to the conclusion the rest of us already<br \/>\nfound. It&#8217;s getting colder out genius, and sometimes humans should be able to<br \/>\ndump their trash without it becoming a sacred ritual! The truth sure is<br \/>\ninconvenient huh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; All I wanted to do was throw some trash away. I had a paper cup from coffee at the airport and decided when I was done with it the prudent thing to do was throw it away. Why Not? 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