100 reasons why I love my wife – Reason 37
My wife doesn’t stand for any rubbish.
No, not rubbish such as ” I am sorry honey, that has never happened before. Let me clean that up and we can try again in a few hours” but rather, garbage!!
Our city, as in most, has a recycling service, or blue box. This allows us to seperate glass, plastic, paper and place them out seperately. This is good for the enironvment and also means a little less normal trash. The provider of this recycling services has decided that rather than placing all items into a blue box every two weeks, house owners now has to seperate each type of rubbish. Tying up paper in twine, washing and taking off the labels of food cans, keeping the glass seperate. There is a large to-do about this in our city for several reasons.
My wife, that quiet, unassuming woman of mine wrote a letter to the editor of our local tome asking if there were organizations or groups that collected certain types of recycling for charity. The answers have been pinging her mailbox since the letter was posted with resounding yes’s!
You see, my wife’s logic is this. If she is going to go the extra step of seperating the garbage, then she should be able to donate or give it to whoever she wants, whenever she wants, and not just the organized pickup every two weeks. In our house, with very little storage space for such items, the garbage would either be put out on the deck to be attacked by the local wildlife, or somewhere in the house where the inside wildlife, or our children as others call them, can get them.
If you think about it, its a simple choice. Do the work that the garbage company used to do, causing us more problems than solving, or do the work and then give it to a charity through a group of do gooders. Its nice to be able to give to charity because its not always possible to give when asked, but this way, we can always be giving!
