Define “Trash”
You can find trash anywhere now a days. Sometimes it’s in garbage cans OR even better recycling bins. Sometimes trash is in trailer parks and has a weird type of haircuit stuck to it. As well as a cold Coors light. Side note, isn’t it awesome you can tell a Coors Light is cold because it glows blue? Whoever drinks that deserves to swallow the color changing chemical that lines those cans. Anyways, trash is everywhere. Or is it?
Sometimes trash is treasure. Back to that recycling bin - I mean those bottles are going to be something. A crib, a case for a guitar, a Tupperware container, another recycling bin, a playground, or even a field goal post (let the bottles dream!). Even that couch you put on the curb is helpful to somewhere. Never mind that the couch is no longer filled with softness but lice and bed bugs instead. For a couple of days some very frugal family is going to lay the hell out of that thing.
Sometimes trash is confusing. I was once yelled at for putting a half eaten apple in a man’s yard. To be honest, it was the fringe of his yard and it was just dirt. And to be even more honest, he must not have been much of a man if he was yelling at a poor college junior about apples instead of being the bread winner his family needed. I was just returning the apple from where it came. When I eat bananas (often) I never know what to do with the peel. Sometimes I want to throw it in the ground. It is organic and I reason that a bird will make a nice nest or costume out of it. Other times I’m worried one of my human companions will slip on it.
Can’t we just begin to label things “TRASH” and others “TREASURES”. Immediately, I see a problem here. That problem is that some very optimistic person is going to label everything “TREASURE” and people will never throw things away. I suppose we could have a committee. Any takers?
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compost: the answer to all your banana peel questions
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