Earth Day
I like the re-use, re-purpose, re-cycle thing. We live in such a throw-away society.
I always feel guilty about throwing out plastic things…. whether it’s a container, or the plastic hanger you buy a cheap scarf on… or even that little plastic ring that pops off when you open an orange juice container. I feel like there should be a way to use those things… rather then sending ’em to the landfill.
That’s why in my daydreams I look for the world of Star Trek, where there are no landfills because everything is run through a Reclamator, broken down into basic particle streams, segregated, then stored. Until they are fed into new particle streams and passed to a Replicator, where they come back out as brand spankin new things. Just like nature already does, but accelerated.
Hey, it’s *my* daydreams, I’ll have ’em if I want ’em. 😛
Geologists refer to the current era as “the plastic horizon”.
The guide should be to trswat nothing as “disposable” unless it is bio-degradable.
that’s treat not trswat. I have no idea how e typoed into sw.
Lets hope that wall was up for grabs to be painted on.
Nice art…very green.
Google has a neat timelapse of plants laid out in a Google arrangement blooming. Well, mostly. Seems the “L” never took hold.
All the talk of trash makes recall Father Jack talking of the Biblical Gahenna. Yeah, yeah, definitions have it down as a place of torment and suffering with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the abode of condemned souls, hell, a place were fires burned day and night. Okay, so what was the place? Really? It was a city dump. Located just outside the walls of Jerusalem, it was the place where all the mountains of waste (food, human, scraps, whathaveyou’s) generated by the city were taken. So, how to get rid of the mountains of trash? Jesus’s time was a bit before Caterpillar bulldozers. Plus those earth movers need diesel to run and that hadn’t been invented yet either. So what did they do? Yup, you guessed it… They burned the trash. And did so day and night, just to try to stay on top of it’s constant smelly newarrival. And who got sent to the small little garbage town to man the fires, the evil-doers as a just punishment. Yup, hell…the city’s dump.
On the plus side, trash makes gobs of methane, that companies like Waste Management capture and turn into fuel for their trash trucks.
Hmm, ment to write, “yeh, yeh.” Okay, I’ve now had some coffee.
Double hmm, graffiti making an environmental conscious message on what looks like a concrete wall? Them concrete walls can be real thirsty and may soak up painted on art for permanant storage. Worse is that graffiti can be like tattoos and potato chips… once you have one, you have to have another and another. Graffiti tends to be a magnet for LOTS of tagging style inscriptions and cross-outs with threats.
Nice intention though.
Grey…. Yah… that sort of non-trash space talk is fun. Heck, who knows? Now we have “communicators” that we can talk to anyone anywhere… but haven’t quite gotten to the “Scotty, beam me up!” part.
Beetles… Petroleum products are both good and bad, non? It seems to me that the smarties in the world could come up with a way to fix the floating mass of plastic rubbish somehow. Sigh… We went to the moon, people! How come we can’t solve the floating trash pile!!??
sorry, that was a rant.
Jack (wooo hooo! next weekend!) I’m SURE they got the correct permit or permissions. No doubt, this little painting was done in Sandoon City where there’s lots of industrial wall-age to choose from.
stick… wow. Craig Thompson’s Habibi has an environmental slant in between the sometimes difficult to read story. The setting is Middle Eastern, and there’s toxic wastelands and cesspools. It’s wonderfully illustrated… and sort of depressing at the same time.
I work for a company that is very wastefull. They do not like the idea of recycling and throw everything away. Even the holliday pet toys and products. This is very sad.
I have a thought about the floating garbage patch in the ocean.
The giant evil factory trawlers of the world could use their nets to scoop up all of this junk and get it out of our oceans.
Squid… You’d think that your company would either discount price or donate their unsold seasonal pet toys. Maybe you can offer up an employee comment that if they sell their past-their-prime goodies at reduced prices, they’d earn more money company wide, and if they donated the stuff to animal rescue centers, they’d get tax write-offs. Either way… They’d get money for doing good and recycling. Oh and maybe you could get a cash reward for setting them straight.
brig… You’ll have to let me look through that Habibi graphic novel of yours sometime. My story’s point was that what later became stylized as the firery pits of hell with its torment, suffering and vile creatures (rat, ant, hyena, vulture, seagull scavengers) was actually a reference to a city dump.
I saw a short video on the net some time ago, about a Japanese man who invented a device that returned plastic back to oil. Something about heat and pressure. Maybe there are people in the world who ARE on the right track.
I’ve worked professionally with computers for nearly 30 years now, and one of the things I hate the most is that perfectly working computers and parts and peripherals are simply thrown away because they are so obsolete that nobody wants them. Oh, there have been phases over the years. There was a time when it was cheaper to upgrade the parts rather than buy new. And there have been times when you could donate obsolete-for-business computers to organizations who needed them to use or to teach out-of-work people job skills. But those times have pretty much passed for now. I hope they come back.
Save the Earth! That’s where I keep all my stuff!
@Dada: *hehe* The Tick.
SPOOOOOOOONNNN!!
Jack said: “Lets hope that wall was up for grabs to be painted on.”
But I was thinking: “Let’s hope that wall was dry before Spill leaned on it”
😀
But, it’s Spill we’re talking about … you KNOW it wasn’t dry yet. ::snicker::