Not Personal, Just Business

The future of America right there, folks.  These two are hard-core
recyclers!

Very cool operation.  That's a lot of recycling there!
 (Too bad you can't see the sludge
dripping out of the bottom of this truck.....ewwww.)

Miss Paula working the visuals!  Go, Paula!

Marionettes?!  Really?!  You do know I'm a high schooler?

My phone camera didn't do the colors in these
bales justice at all.  They were quite beautiful, really.

First of all, thanks to the mom, a.k.a. Grandma D, for organizing this way cool field trip!  You rock.  Why, you wonder?  Because I didn't have to do anything but show up and those are my favorite field trips of all time!


We are in such odd times right now.  Everyone is very business-like when it comes to, say, business.  Yea, that totally makes sense. If you visited the recycling center in our area you would understand.  It's a totally cool homeschool field trip with cartoon character public service announcements all singing to Aretha Franklin's R-e-s-p-e-c-t tune, but using r-e-c-y-c-l-e instead. Quite a catchy tune and it sticks in that spot in your mind til 3 a.m. There were marionettes, too, people!  This place has got it going on.  Lots of primary colors on the walls and recycled projects displayed and an awesome viewing area of the whole shabang in the processing center.  Large windows where you could watch the trucks dumping out the materials and front end loaders pushing it around onto the conveyor belts for sorting then the stacks and stacks of awesomely colored bales of crushed aluminum cans and the like.  All very cool and very interesting.  Sarah was in awe of the soda pop chadelier inside the front door.  "Mom, we could totally do that!"  Of course, my reply was, "Well, honey, that means we'd have to start drinking soda."  Hmmmmm....not sure that project will make the cutting floor.  


I just was a little saddened by the lack of environmental statistics or green information.  I thought there would be more.  Like some Living Like Ed pics on the walls or a stationery bike hooked to a toaster made of recycled materials.  Lots of talk about how much money it costs to recycle and how much money the county gets for selling their recycled material bales and etc.  Just not very informed on how recycling is good for the earth and what the impact to the landfills have been since starting the program.  I'm sure once the economy settles down, Ed Begley, Jr. will drop by for a green makeover and educate the educator.  Til then I encourage you to not only visit the closest center in your area, but recycle.  It's good for the earth, and it's good for you, although I don't know why........JK.  Trying to be funny.  

Job 12:7-10

 ⁷ "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, 

       or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

 ⁸ or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, 

       or let the fish of the sea inform you.

 ⁹ Which of all these does not know 

       that the hand of the LORD has done this?

 ¹⁰ In his hand is the life of every creature 

       and the breath of all mankind.