The kitchen produces lots of waste and junk every day.
There are too many glass bottles, plastic bags and containers.
Everything comes in a nice container. When you’re
finished with the contents you look at the container!
It’s so nice you don’t want to throw it away.
You think about using the container for something.
So, you clean it and put it in the cabinet for future use.
Next week you go to the grocery store and buy another container!
By the end of the week, you have another great container.
You clean it and then put it with the other containers in the
cabinet. Before you realize it there’s a dozen containers.
You might need them next week!
The container saga is worse with glass jars.
When you get a jar with large openings that’s precious.
You can’t throw those jars out. They could
hold all your screws, nails, bolts, paper clips, pennies
and everything else. So, you remove the label and clean
the jar for future use. The cycle repeats every week.
Recycling
Recycling is the best way to remove all the junk.
You pack the boxes with all that stuff and bring it to
the re-cycle place. Feeling good about what you did.
Re-cycling all the junk is the right thing to do, right?
Then the news reports that they don’t actually re-cycle.
Industry finds it easier to just make more containers.
Archeologist
I wonder what the archeologists are going to think.
They will be out on a dig somewhere in America.
They’ll dig up all this junk and publish papers explaining
about how our culture had lots of trash and it was a big problem.
It might be the reason they all died!
As we live our junk just keeps growing.
I envy minimalists for the strength to resist buying
more junk! Also, how easily they can just throw it all away.
It’s a gift they have.
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