I have decided that I am going to go ahead and out myself. I feel comfortable enough in my own skin to go ahead and admit something that I’m afraid may cast me in a poor light, but I feel it only right that I be honest.
I do not recycle.
When I lived in central Austin and the city provided tiny trash cans and large recycling bins, and charged if I went over the trash limit but not if I over filled the recycling bin, I dutifully recycled. I only did it because I’m cheap. Not for any other reason.
I take issue with Global Warming. I’m not so sure it’s appropriate to call it a fact. More so, I would like to see the lawsuit threatened by the founder of the Weather Channel against Al Gore for fraud go through.
I do my best to keep things tidy. I think people who toss cigarette butts out their windows should be ashamed of themselves, and I almost always gather a full bag of trash to toss when I take walks with the kids.
That said, I am no alarmist when it comes to taking care of the Earth. I do not feel any sort of civic duty to go above and beyond. Now, if I am holding an empty soda can and there is a trash can right next to a recycling bin, I’ll toss it in the bin. But put that bin twenty feet away and it’s the trash can for me.
I believe that this whole world as we know it is going to end in its time. I don’t think God is wringing His hands about the mess we’ve allegedly made of things, “Oh My! I wasn’t planning on the second coming for at least another two centuries, but that whole Ozone thing has me backed in a corner.”
That’s my take. I just might have to expand a bit more but for keeping records straight, I think it will do.
Anonymous says:
*raises hand*
I recycle, but only cans because my school has a recycling bin for them.
Beth
March 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Alyson says:
I started recycling in November after a long discussion occurred amongst our playgroup e-mail list regarding the merits of recycling. I was actually really proud to put my bin out today for pick-up because it was REALLY full.
That said, if it wasn’t free, I probably wouldn’t make the extra step to do it. My husband thinks it’s ludicrous that I bother with it at all, but it doesn’t take me but an extra second to throw something in the bin in the garage rather than in the trash can in my kitchen.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Amy says:
I got no beef with people who do recycle. I myself reduce and reuse, I just don’t recycle.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Susan says:
I don’t think God is wringing His hands about the mess we’ve allegedly made of things, “Oh My! I wasn’t planning on the second coming for at least another two centuries, but that whole Ozone thing has me backed in a corner.”
I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
tricia says:
Your post was food for thought…
I think that we have a responsibility to take care of the earth as the precious resource that God has given us. It is all His land, and whatever I can do to keep the earth from becoming a trash pile, I will do.
If someone is planning a renovation, I don’t feel that I have a right to deface their house - I feel the same way about the earth - second coming or not.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Amy says:
Thank you, Tricia, and welcome to my crazy corner of the web!
I learned in the 5th grade that God wanted us to be “good stewards”. Something about that really stuck with me and I have made certain to keep things tidy and trash in its place around me.
There was this boy in my class named “Stewart” and I always see his face when I say “steward”. You didn’t know him, but he was not a very good Stewart.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:19 am