Hi Maggie
Having just completed a huge (over 350,000 sf) multi-building "state of
the art packaging center" (cardboard box designer/printer/maker) that
primarily supplies Walmart vendors, I too sometimes wonder just where
our society's values lie.
I remember reading a breakdown sometime ago on the values of a box of
Kellogg cornflakes from the corn in the field until it got to your
grocer's shelves. As you can guess the thing of least value by far was
the handful of corn that went into the box.
On the ecology front here's one that we do that continues to amaze me.
We have a small wastebasket in nearly every room of the house six total
I think. Then we have a larger kitchen wastebasket and an even larger
one in the garage to take to the street. Now to keep all these baskets
clean they are all lined with some sort of plastic bag, starting with
recycled grocery bags in the little ones up to the big black one in the
garage. The trash day sequence is; take the six small blue bags and
place them in the one large white kitchen bag, then take the white bag
and place it in the big black bag along with the week's collection of
other white bags and drag the blue plastic can to the street. I imagine
one day the can will go to hell and I'll put a note on it asking the
collector to take the whole thing. Imagine the stories some distant
archeologist will concoct when he opens a smashed blue sarcophagus and
painstakingly unwraps a minimum of three more layers of plastic to find
in the inner, "most valued?" blue bag containing just a few small
squares of crumpled white paper covered with hardened balls of snot. I'm
sure he'll wonder, "Just what is it that these people valued?"
3WD
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