I only recently in the past couple of years have begun recycling everything I can.
However, I've always had an affection for this planet I call home and a duty to protect it...hence the like 99 page essay in Grade 9 that took 6 months to write about saving the Amazon Rainforest. I got 99.5% on that, damn straight I did, I'm proud of it too! (and yeah, I still support saving the Amazon, watch Planet Earth, you'll see why)
You will remember, if you were close to me, my zeal for saving the Amazon, how I wanted to take on the world and stop the logging, the open pit mining, the senseless destruction of centuries old plant growth.
Well that same passion and fire are still in me! I will be directing it towards this:
Yes, an egg carton.
You see, I usually buy the Omega 3 eggs that come in the clear plastic carton. I prefer those eggs, and I can recycle the carton. (On a side note, I am not happy about the amount of plastic they use in their cartons, but that is another battle for another day)
Anyhow, I digress. The other day I went to Shoppers Drug Mart to pick up my weekly run of eggs, milk and cream (they have the cheapest by the way) and lo and behold they had NO eggs, nada, zilch. No biggie, I had to go to good old Walmart that evening so I figured I could pick them up there. They didn't have my kind so I picked this carton up there.
Again, not my first choice, it is made with polystrene and is not the Omega 3 enhanced ones I usually buy. (for you non-environmental saavy friends you can not recycle that stuff) Also I needed eggs and another trip to another store was a waste of gas. So I bought them, used them, the eggs were fine of course.
And then I came upon this:
Sheer and utter stupidity!!! Who the HELL would MAIL one freaking (or even 10?!?!) of these back to WASHINGTON to be recycled?!?!?? Let me list off the reasons why this is a stupid idea:
1. Who will actually PAY to mail it?
2. It will take alot of fossil fuels to get that egg carton from me (in the middle-of-nowhere-Canada) to them in Washington state.
3. The upside of actually sending it in is totally mitigated by the amount of energy and damage to the environment getting it back to them.
4. Ummm why???
(If you have any others, feel free to leave me a comment and I'll add it to my letter)
So hence the reason for my title. This deserves a letter...they did give me their address after all... I'll let you know if I hear anything back...
