RECYCLE

Have you gotten into recycling yet?  I have been doing this for a while now.  One would be amazed at how much less trash you take to the trash container.  Our town has purchased a recycle bin for the area residents to put their recyclables in.  These are the materials that can be placed in our bins;

Aluminum & steel (tin) beverage & food cans
Plastic beverage, food & soap containers (containers #1 thru #7)
Glass containers (all colors of food & beverage jars & bottles)
Newspapers (including inserts)
Magazines, junk mail, office paper, books, phone books, catalogs
Cardboard & pasteboard (NO shredded paper)

The State of Kansas is asking every community in Kansas to reduce the waste stream by recycling materials that can be recycled.  It seems like we are a wasteful society.  If we all would recycle a little bit before long you'll see it's not bad.  Some trash companies offer a separate container for recyclables, which is nice.  As for our little town, we all have to take ours to the bin.  There usually isn't a time when our bin doesn't have something in it.  By the looks of it, I would say the city has to dump it 2 - 3 times a week.

Do you take your own bags when you go shopping?  This cuts down on the use of the plastic bags.  I found a website http://www.plasticbagrecycling.org, which will help you find places where a drop box is located.  Here the the different kinds of plastic that they accept.  Please note that all bags need to be clean & dry.

Grocery bags
Retail bags (hard plastic & string handles removed)
Paper towel & toilet paper plastic wrap
Plastic newspaper bags
Plastic dry cleaning bags
All clean, clear bags labeled with a #2 or #4

As I've stood in line waiting to get checked out, people have made the comment to me "so your one of those people."  I reply "well yes I am."  I have my bags in the car and on the coat hook by our back door.  So when I walk up to our local grocery store I can grab the bags on the way out.  There are many stylish bags available for purchase and some companies will give some away too.  I just got a freebie bag that is made out of recycled water bottles.

Watch out you might get hooked.  Have a great day.

A New Era

Blogging is the collection of ones thoughts that is wrote in their blog.  A diary is the collections of ones thoughts wrote in a book that one could lock if they so choose to.  Journaling is the collections of ones thoughts also.  People write about the weather, who visited them on a certain day, the events that took place in history and many more thoughts that randomly occur in their minds. 

When I first started journaling we used paper & pencils/pens.  Now one blogs on their computers and millions of people can read them.  One might think who really is interested in my collection of thoughts.  As I start this blog I have no idea or certain area content that I will write about on a regular basis.

My husbands Grandmother use to journal daily writing the weather conditions down and any other events or people that came by that day.  Just her little collection of thoughts.  My Mother says she is leaving a collection of her thoughts in boxes, books and drawers.  My Grandmother would send magazines over to us after she read them, with notes on the cover what pages she thought we should read.  When she passed away, we found notes on items stating which side of the family it came from and who made it.

This is no new invention, just a changing of how we share our collection or knowledge.  There is one thing people can count on is change.  Our world is ever changing, before we kept of thoughts private and now the whole world could view them if they so choose to.