"The Bad"

"The bad" is trash. Unlike Oscar the Grouch, most of us, don't like trash. I'm all about recycling. For instance, if I have an item that I no longer want, but it's still useable, I would put it in the "Give Away" bag cause someone else may want it.

Being a single mom of four children who were seven years old down to 11 months old and living in a two bedroom two bath apartment, we didn't have a whole lot of room. Also, I am the Felix Unger of the "Old Couple", so I like to have my house in order. Not being very creative but very structured presented a problem with the everyday stuff accumulating in the house. I taught my kids to go through their stuff at least once a month. There were three bags. Well the third wasn't really a bag.

1. Give Away
2. Throw Away
3. Keep

It kept us in the mode of keeping up with our stuff and keeping our small place in order. I had hoped this lesson would go into their adult years, as they are in now. Well, I don't think it's as good as when I had been the "Coach of Keeping up and Picking Up", but at least they have the foundation. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

I found an awesome link about trash and recycling facts. It still blows me away when I read about landfills and what goes in them.

In the drop-down menus there are all sorts of help topics and scary recycling facts.
For instance, under:
Cash from Trash
Recycling cell phones, printer cartridges, aluminum, newspapers, even fund raising ideas.

There is a lot of information out there, should any of us choose to look it up and act upon it.
Most of us spend our time looking at trash in not your typical trash form that you would expect to find it in.
I mean "surfing", as they say, "trash sites" on the Internet. Get my drift?

If we spent more time doing our part to end or at least get a better handle on the trash situation, we'd be much better off. We should not leave it to the folks who work in the Sanitation Department of our cities.

Disease, that comes from not properly sanitizing would be better under control.

When I took my Cosmetology course back in 1992-1993, I remember our instructors stressing, "sanitize, sanitize". It was so important, that our State Board exam was primarily based on "Patron Protection and Sanitation", they figured, if you can follow rules then you will do well at your skill and perfect your craft out in the field. Do you really want a talented hairdresser or any kind of service professional, operating on you without sanitizing their tools? Not I.

http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html