I remember back in the day when you had to pull together the top of a trash bag (which at my house was difficult because I waited too long to pull it out and there wasn't much cheap black plastic to work with), rip a cheap twist tie off the sheet of twist ties that came in the box, and twist it tight enough that the plastic would pull down through it.
These days things are much easier. We rock the double roll of trash bags from Costco with the nice red handles that pull and tie. I enjoy them much more than the ones with the twist ties. Why am I writing about trash bags you may ask. Well, apparantly they're very important to our culture so I thought I'd give my take. My reason for thinking that is the following quotation from "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink.
"When we can't store our many things, we just throw them away. As business writer Polly LaBarre notes, 'The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world's nations.'"
4 comments:
sad indictment on our society... I will also add that Americans tend to like things overpackaged, adding even more to the waste that we expel... on a different note, I've heard that texting works internationally, so perhaps I'll have to annoy you that way someday, just for the hell of it... I won't expect a reply, though!
A Whole New Mind is a must read!!!!
That really makes me feel like trash.
ps--make sure Cory gets a Starbucks.
or if this email is less dangerous sounding...jssahl@yahoo.com
thanks trev, scott.
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