.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

I was cross when I found out it was Blog Action Day yesterday, because by the time I found out it was something like 5pm and therefore too late to participate properly (C said I was too busy being green to participate, because we'd been recycling "extra" plastic and Freecycling a mound of stuff, which I found quite funny). Then I thought, well, why confine myself to blogging about the environment on one day?! I do that anyway, so here I am today instead, a day late, with my usual environmental concerns rambles.

WE USE TOO MANY TREES! It's true.

Sorting out the office, this is just some of the paper we have come across that needs to be recycled:

I repeat: JUST SOME of it. Jeesh. How many trees was I responsible for having chopped down?! To be fair, though, a lot of it is from, like, 7 years ago when people used to print out emails just in case they needed them (I did, and I never needed them... so I stopped). Sigh. Too bad our shredder is a bit crap and only takes 5 sheets of paper at a time. That's a lot of shredding, and a lot of time.

At least this move has resulted in a major Free/recyclathon, rather than throwing 7 bin liners full of unsorted rubbish away, like I did when I left London. I still feel guilty about that. I'm probably not normal; but at least I repent:

O God Of Trees, please forgive me. I offer you tons of paper, carefully separated from other materials and shredded. I offer you tons of cardboard also, and glass and metal, and even extra plastic, carefully washed and dried. Hell, I even offer you Tetrapaks, and I'll go all the way to Halifax and take them to the special place where the special Tetrapak people will come along and take them away and recycle them with the special thingies that they use.

And, and, we have some batteries too. And compost. And probably some other things. Yes, definitely some other things. Do you forgive me now?! I hope so. And yes, I know I have a weird kind of Enviro-guilt, and will just have to live with it.

Thanks for listening anyway.
Amen.