The Green Thing

[Asiel]

After reading this I realized just how true it is. Thinking back I can honestly say we were better at recycling than most people today and we didn't have the green thing back then. I can't remember seeing empty jars in the trash,our moms washed and sterilized them to use when they made preserves...today we wash them and throw them in the recycle box...lots of other things were reused also.

[Marigold2]

Yes times have changed.
How long I wonder will it take all the billions upon billions of poopy diapers water bottles, old Tubberwear and the millions of other plastic items we have sent to the land fills to finally break down.
Plastic is a marvel, a wonder, a lifesaver, a miracle and a very harmful thing to Mother Earth.

[Karen]

Yes times have changed.
How long I wonder will it take all the billions upon billions of poopy diapers water bottles, old Tubberwear and the millions of other plastic items we have sent to the land fills to finally break down.
Plastic is a marvel, a wonder, a lifesaver, a miracle and a very harmful thing to Mother Earth.

It does, however, many kinds of plastic recycle well, burn well, and so places with 'waste to energy converters" (we used to call them incinerators) can take care of it that way ... and yes, there are scrubbers on their smokestacks, worry not. We recycle all our plastic bottles and nearly anything else we can.