It's Still Hard to Be Green!!!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Concerning the new aluminum can recycling program I started . . . this time . . . I am the one doing most of the work. Some support it; some don't (since it is voluntary).

When I have days off, few to no cans go into the bin. I just had two days off and no new cans went in. But, a guy in another department, one that gets more cans, has joined in, and he had his normal big number.

I am the only one taking them to the recycler.

Last week I did our first payout, and paid ten shares. I just put the money in envelopes, and into a container that said "Recycling $$$, Take One." Everyone did.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Human nature at its best...

[Presley Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Presley]

I would put a sign on the jar that says what you just posted above.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Oh, sure, stir the pot.

First, cans not being saved when I am not there is not necessarily a recycling thing. I had three days off and spent a lot of my time today doing stuff that had not been done for three days. So . . . I can't say anything about that, so I can't say anything about people not helping on recycling, either. Yeah, doing our work seems to be voluntary at my place.

I talked to the guy from the other department who is doing as much on the recylcing as all of us combined. I told him he would be in the next payoff. He said, "No. I don't want money. I'm doing it because it is the right thing to do."

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Yes

Another, and better, type of human nature (pretty rare however).

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

dang, wish I had the edit button to correct typos

Can we get a JLB/Typos only edit button?

[Mongoose Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mongoose]

This is our first year with a real garden, and we just started to composte. Its really a win win win... The veggies taste better, we produce less trash, and we save money.

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BTW, I've always been a staunch protector of the environment, but I don't buy into this global warming crap. We need to protect the environment from real polution. I've seen it in China and India. It only hurts the cause to get caught up in cow farts and CO2, when there are real poisions out there and untreated radioactive waste being dumped in the artic waters.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

One of the little benefits of our little compost pile is that we have a couple of very grateful turtles living in our backyard during this drought.

Well, maybe I'm just sensing their gratitude.

[Mongoose Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mongoose]

That's pretty cool JLB!

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Don't let the OF Herd see them. They might retaliate.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I had two days off, so today I spent a lotta time doing stuff that had been left for me to do. I asked the boss, "Before I do _______, in my two days off, did you give orders not to do _______?"

He understands me and my sense of humor.

At the end of my shift, when I went to get the cans to take to recycle, there was a handwritten note on the box of trash bags, "Do not use for cans."

Hmmmm!? Smartass employee or orders from the boss? Who knows?

Any way, if I can help the environment by keeping cans out of the landfill, I can help the environment by keeping 2 trash bags a week out of the landfill. &, if 2 trash bags a week is too stiff of a price for my company to have a recycling program, oh well.

As if to anticipate it, I had two keepers with me, which is an easier way to haul them any way.

If the cost of bags is a big deal, the boss needs to insist that we fill them, instead of throwing several half-filled ones a day in the dumpster. or not.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Maybe it's just my sense of it, but I think the personal satisfaction for doing good is enhanced when it is not a requirement.

& further enhanced when some of those around you object to good-doing, resist it, and make it more difficult.

It was not m boss(es) who put the note on the trash bags.

Discussing it with them, I said, "Sometimes when you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that the objective is to drain the swamp."

(Just something people say when their task is complicated by others, and I would never want to drain the swamp.)

The GM said, "Whatever it is you're doing, just keep doing it."

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Probably good advice.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

The program went pretty well this year.

It was simple.

It was voluntary. Those who did not want to put cans in the bin right next to the regular trash bin did not have to. I hauled all the cans to recycling, accounted for the money, and paid out shares, mine equal to everyone else's.

Those who did not participate, did not get a share.

In our department, all but one participated, and in another department, where a lot of the cans came from, only one did. This year.