Say, someone tells you steak is nothing more than the
recycling of cows. Even the biggest meat eaters would say that’s nuts,
and it is. Cows, after all, are alive. They breathe, they
(occasionally) move. They go “mooooo.”
So, “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” doesn’t apply to cattle
ranches. But what about plastic. Plastic is made from carbon and
oil and such. Oil comes from... plankton? Dinosaurs?
So when Alexander Parkes made the first plastic in 1855, was
he fooling around with what we now call celluloid, or was he creating life in a
test tube?
The Plasticarians think the latter. When your grocery
bags no longer are useful, do you recycle them like cows? Or do you give
them a proper burial, either in a landfill or your back yard.
It may take them millions of years to come back in an
equally useful form, but they WILL come back.
Do plastic objects have souls? Ask any practitioner of
Voodoo and you’ll get a “yes.” And they’ll tell you the same about logs,
little stuffed dolls, statues and drums.
So when you’re finished with the Glad Wrap or the grocery
bag or the water bottle and you just casually throw it into a recycle bin
somewhere, do you know what happens to it?
Maybe it goes to the landfill. But maybe it’ll be
cruelly tortured by being melted down and made into something else.
There’s no way you can be sure unless you bury it yourself. While burying
a human corpse in your backyard is illegal in many places, burying a zip-lock
bag is not.
Would you tear a six-ounce soda bottle from its two liter
mom? Not if you think like a Plasticarian. Are you sure the bottle
of liquid detergent and the bottle of liquid fabric softener that sit on your
shelf have not fallen in love?
It’s a good thing Guinness and Newcastle Ale don’t come in
plastic, else there might be a mini war between the Irish and the British at
the bottle melting factory! These also deserve proper burials. And
not in the same place.
Time to organize! Prevent the abuse and torture of
plastic. Eliminate the death penalty. Keep families together.
And while you’re doing that, please pass the recycled cow.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome
to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WR 2021
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