Recycling
Recycling has become a passion and many households have boxes to collect tin cans, bottles, newsprint and cardboard. Some urban municipalities make it easy by providing pickup for bottles and cans.The rest of us haul them to central depots.
New industrial plants are being built to convert used paper, cans and bottles into something useful. Businesses sanctimoniously boast of using recycled paper in their letterheads.
Vegetable wastes from the kitchen are dumped on backyard compost enclosures to rot into high nutrient humus.
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While flattening a box of tin cans the other day, I wondered how a tin-recycling operation deals with the variation in cans. Obviously there is a different formula in a dark mushroom soup can and a light-colored pineapple can. Do these all have to be hand-sorted or is it all tossed in together and out comes a mushapple can?
Is there any possibility my column might be improved by being printed on recycled paper that once displayed a column by Dear Abby?
Some day someone is going to write a song about the endless chain of growing spuds, recycling the tops and peelings into soil and using the soil to grow more spuds.
Anyone named Michael will be squirming at lyric writers because that’s the only name I can think of that rhymes with cycle.
Speaking of potato peelings, I dropped some in our compost bin. In a few weeks some sturdy potato plants appeared. I let the plants grow but all they produced was a lush set of tops.
Anybody like potato top salad?
