Recycling a waste of time?

Jonny was reading a blog after blogging. He does this for long term inspiration. He was so fired up after reading about recycling is a waste of time. So he is putting his response here. Recycling isn't a waste of time. Angelina paid extra money to have a huge dumpster garbage bin. The city gives you one. It is something like 96 gallons. If you pay a one time fee of like $25 you get the like 116 gallon version. Also she got a compost bin for a one time fee also around the same size 116 gallons. In addition there are four bins for recycling. 3 are brown for paper and cardboard. The 4th is green for containers, plastic, metal, glass, and cans. Most bottles go back to the grocery store for the $0.10 deposit. Sometimes if the beer comes from Trader Joes then it isn't worth it to return it for $0.60, so instead a homeless man usually picks it up out of the recycling bin. Understanding the system takes time but not really like your gonna bill the city for your time. Sure a diesel fueled bus is no more expensive than a bio-diesel fueled bus. Per Lyman Ward. He said you are satisfied that it is cleaner. The city uses these. Many people in Ann Arbor ride prius. They are more expensive and get the same fuel economy. They are cleaner. You can build a deck with fake wood. The fake wood is more expensive. It comes from #2 plastic. It will last forever. The idea of recycling a contact lens container into deck material is fantastic. In fact if Abraham was alive today Jonny is convinced he would be an environmentalist. There is a physicist doctor here in the UM who throws out nothing. He recycles it all. Every single piece of garbage isn't really garbage. So guess what his footprint on the earth is small. Jonny doesn't go to that extreme. Angelina would throw out all paper and cardboard cereal boxes right into that huge dumpster and the city would care, but wouldn't fine her. They aren't going to go threw the garbage and fine people for throwing out glass. They won't force you to recycle a can of tomatoe paste. They won't fine you if there is a teaspoon of milk in the #2 plastic milk jug. It is against state law to throw yard refuse into the trash. No one will catch you if a piece of wood with nails in it makes it into the trash can or saw dust or a couple of leaves. The hardest part about recycling is fitting it all into those bins. Occasionally Jonny takes a utility knife a cuts down the cardboard to fit into the boxes. Yes one truck picks up the recycling, one truck picks up the garbage and a third truck picks up the compost. See http://www.recycleannarbor.org/ and read essays on how recycling stops global warming and read essays on why recycling is important.

Jonny did stretching last night. Jesse started soccer yesterday. This weekend is another football game and a trip to Wiard's orchard. Kristina sent Jonny an email.

We haven’t heard from you in a month now! Let us know if all is ok. I guess you must be busy with the kids all going back to school and you are probably starting a new semester of teaching too.

Love, Mom

He wrote her back a twenty minute email.