Why Can't More Stuff Be Recycled ?

Seems like doing your part these days just doesn't quite cut it. Sure, recycling is a wonderful thing and it does help the earth and the economy, but why isn't there more things on the list that can be recycled by now. I remember when I was in grade school and I used to day dream about how spectacular the world would be in "the year 2000". It was never referred to as the millennium or Y2K, or any of that. It was the future of total technological supremacy.

Movies such as,"Back to the Future" as an example, where you could simply pop the top on a Mr.Fusion and load it up with a little spare garbage and a few drop of old beer (as well as the beer can)and have enough fuel to fly your car into the next dimension. This was the kind of world that we all expected to see as we neared the new millennium.

However, it's not the condition in which live today. In fact, nothing much has changed as far as modern transportation really, nor in the fuel we use to get around and to do the things we do. Of course there are heavy social, political, and economic factors that stand in the way. Really though, the sad truth is that our technology has made us even more lazy and attached to a system that seems to still be in perfect working order.

Is there anything really the matter? It's all in your attitude right? Wrong. Too many people see the world how they want to see it and not the way it really looks. Topped with the fact that some people just really couldn't care less, the trash continues to pile up where ever it may find a home. It just seems like there must be way to recycle more of the trash.

Heck, just the other day I saw these kids about 15 or 16 walking down my street, all typical urban youth with their jeans half falling off. While they made there way down the block (walking in the middle of the road one of fine young gentlemen just lets fall his "Biggie" soft drink onto the pavement below. I guess this was typical behavior for these guys, for nobody even missed a beat as they made there way through the neighborhood in search of a friendly basement and game console.

Ridiculous. I should have ran out outside with a ninja sword and demanded that it be pick it up. Probably not a good idea since people tend to be more and more "strapped" these days, especially our vibrant youth that we try to educate so very well. It's intolerable the attitudes of people who could care less about all the litter and trash laying around. I can't believe anyone would want to be seen contributing to it, maybe even thinking it to be an expression of rebellion.

Sometimes I'm walking around wherever, it doesn't matter, and I'm looking down at all of the crap that people just deliberatly toss on the ground and I'm thinking, "Wow how civilized we've become in the last 200 million years." We can't seem to care about the simplest of things. I mean recycling is one thing. Keeping your garbage to yourself another. Do you ever notice how most of your average ground clutter seems to be someone's personal belonging? From cigarette butts and snuff cans to lottery tickets and liquor bottles, people are determined to share their personal filth with the world.

How would it make someone feel if they heard that the dirty diaper they left laying in the alley the other day was just the last of the last for someone already wanting to commit suicide. Or, how about the adult magazine that is discarded out in some parking lot that becomes some kid's first impressions of sexuality. If that isn't enough, how about some kid swimming at a beach or in a lake and watching a syringe float by thinking, "I wonder what that is." If any of this is starting to scare the crap out of you, good,it's supposed to do that sort of thing to any thinking human being.

Do I offer any solutions to this epidemic? Well, I have some ideas, but they are drops in the pond compared to the zillions of ideas people could come up with all over the planet if they took a little time out there day to do so. One of my most favorite ideas is surely a popular one. Blow it up. That's right send it on it's way to the Sun or another star in the galaxy and blow it to smithereens. Surely, this could be worked out where no harm would be done to anything. Wouldn't this be saving the Sun some energy by adding a little outside fuel? Everything came from the stars right? So why not give it back? Is this not Recycling?

I mean come on it's so obvious a solution. I'm sure there are many variables that need to be worked out like: What happens if it blows up in the atmosphere during take off? What if it is accidently bumped off course by an asteroid or comet? Or, scattered out in space? We're smart though right?

We came up with the invention of the landfill didn't we? I have confidence in the human intellect to disintegrate a little refuse. Anyhow, we can start by keeping our trash off the street and recycling a little bit here and there. One day maybe we will have a space trash disposal program, but I guess that's up to our children to decide isn't it?