Gotta watch those garbagemen.
This is how I spent the first half hour home from work:
That’s right. Spray-painting recycling logos onto a trash can. And yes, that’s my own hand-drawn and x-actoed stencil, thank you very much. Looks pretty official, if I do say so myself. -grin-
(Now don’t get the wrong idea – this wasn’t some guerrilla-environmentalist’s aggressive idea of a good time. This can was mine.)
See, our garbagemen aren’t the most scrupulous of picker-uppers. While their enthusiasm for getting their jobs done quickly and thoroughly is wholly commendable, sometimes I wish that they’d pay more attention to what they’re actually picking up. Closed bins reeking to high heaven? Probably trash. A single open bin filled with nothing but glass and plastic bottles, carefully set to next to all the other recycling bins? Probably not.
(And yes, I have looked high and low for a “real” recycling bin – the County said to look in Home Depot, Home Depot said to look at Lowe’s, Lowe’s said to try the local nursery, the local nursery said to try the City, the City said that since we didn’t live in the co-op part of the historical district we had to get ours from the County… you get the idea.)
Because of Memorial Day falling on our recycling pickup day, this week we had two weeks worth of carefully-washed-out containers, precisely stacked and patiently collected and kept in our living space, even when it would have been so much easier to have just thrown it away. And we couldn’t even put it out last night because it was raining, so Josh had to set the alarm for an hour earlier than usual this morning and trudge bleary-eyed through the dripping grass, in his pajamas, so that we would have done our ecological duty.
Grr. The garbagemen took it. Again.
So hopefully this little bit of ecological graffiti will solve our problems in that department. And if not, well, expect yet another long, long story about our kitchen trash. -grin-
July 11th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
so, did it work?
NEAT SIGN ART–ANOTHER LINE OF BUSINESS OPENED UP–YOU COULD GO AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND MARK NEIGHBORS’ CANS FOR $20.00 EACH…more for including the name, detailing, etc.