RANT!RANT!RANT!

I have decided that people, I mean all people, are stupid. No really, think about it. We exist on this beautiful planet and are clever enough to advance from dirt and sticks to huge skyscrapers, cars, computers and oodles and oodles of mass produced things. It's insane, I can't even imagine how we got from rocks and sticks and plants to this keyboard I'm typing at, the screen I'm looking at. It's almost like magic. I won't deny I enjoy all the wonders of new technology and living a bit above the rocks and sticks level....
But the thing that's so stupid about humans isn't that we can create all these amazing things from literally nothing it's that we think it's o.k. to just bury all the old stuff. Or thought it was o.k. to go ahead and create things that we didn't know what to do with when they were past their purpose. Who's idea was that?? Maybe in the *old* days it made sense because everything you buried was a lot closer to it's original "dirt and sticks" incarnation. Like if you buried your left over meal scraps, and old wood bits it actually helped your land be richer. But then we clever humans figured out how to make things that were stronger and last better and don't disappear as easily into the ground as the bones and plants and wood. But the habit was there, bury the trash, If we don't see it and it's not in my yard it doesn't exist. I think I can understand how after an entire human history of just carting your old stuff off to be buried that it would become something we're all used to.
But I don't like it. It hurts to put stuff in the trash can and know it's going to be buried in a hole some where. I looked it up, it's a *lined* hole so it doesn't mess up water systems...so..o.k....then what?? What happens when that hole fills up. And say by some miracle of miracle the whole thing manages to compost itself in like a zillion years? Do you want your great great great great grand babies digging in dirt made from diapers and and old radios and icky Band-Aids? Uggh and that's just some of the lesser nasty stuff that gets buried every day!!
It just seems so wrong that all the world is TRYING to start recycling programs etc AFTER the fact. AFTER every one is already used to just throwing stuff away and not thinking about it any more.
I'm one of the people who enjoys all these new things that come from human advancement in modern technology. I buy clay made from plastic, I buy glue and sparkles and all these things to make MORE things and I wonder if they'll be trash themselves in a hundred years. I try to balance my life though, I try to be aware of the choices I make. So besides the hot glue and paint and ribbon I use old bottle caps and wrapping paper and lightbulbs etc.
My garage fills up with blender motors and old office chairs and assorted doodads that I don't really want......BUT......I can not bear to throw them in the trash. It's frustrating because I don't necessarily NEED 2 working blender motors and an old food processor but how can you donate 2 working blender motors to a thrift store? They're sort of useless unless you have 2 good blender jars and no motor. The bizarre thing is if you want to buy JUST a new blender jar it costs as much or more then a WHOLE NEW blender........what????????
I kind of think that lugging these items around is a sort of penance for the way our society lives. At least if I do have to throw something in the trash I don't do it with out thought. I've had these blender motors for months and in one case years now and if someday (I hope not) we have to finally throw them out it will be with as much seriousness and forethought as deciding to get a pet or have a kid. I bet I give MORE thought about my blender motors then half the world does about making new people. Life is strange isn't it???
In a way I wish I was the type of person strong enough to just say *screw it* and go live off the land in the middle of nowhere and try existing with a zero trash producing lifestyle. Does that sound crazy? Is it crazier than an entire planet of people using NON-RECYCLABLE products every day with the sole intention of literally digging a hole and burying it??? How about if we all had to bury our own trash in our backyards. That seems fair to me. How long do you think it would take for the world to switch over to a more eco-friendly lifestyle if you had to wade through your used tissues, diapers, soured up milk cartons and razor blades and Band-Aids every day? How long would it take to quit buying stuff like that so you didn't have to keep digging deeper every night when you got home from work so you'd have more space to bury the day's trash. I think it's brilliant...oh...but that's right....that would be inconvenient.....oh well then we wouldn't want to inconvenience an entire world of stupid people. hahaha I know every one isn't really stupid, it's more like the whole human race has a bad habit. And lots and lots of people are aware of it and are even trying to fix it.
A gal's gotta blow off some earth friendly steam some times ya know? I'm by no means a fanatic about this stuff I just try to be aware.
Things I hate:

• straws
• take out food containers, sometimes you can't avoid them but doesn't mean you gotta like them.
• containers that have number 5 plastic for the container and a number 2 for the lid...why?? WHY?? Why make the lid something I can recycle and the container not??????
• styrofoam, this stuff might be evil. It too can be quite handy and is a marvelous invention I suppose, but what the hell do I do with the huge pieces that come in practically every thing you mail order. On a side note I have a lovely Styrofoam collection if any one would care to see it. Useful for mailing my own packages and potential crafting use but I'd feel better if they announce styrofoam recycling some day

So you don't think I'm a complete negative Nelly here's things I LOVE:

• packing peanuts that are made from starch! They're biodegradable. BRILLIANT!
• Edco Disposal services, they let me put all my recyclables in ONE bin, this makes it less complicated and therefore more likely a person will recycle. If you don't need to sort cans from plastic and paper life is much easier!
• Number 1 and 2 plastic, cause it's recyclable where I live.
• wrapping paper, a few years back it wasn't on the list of recyclables, at least where I used to live it wasn't, then I discovered that my beloved EDCO accepts it in their recyclables, Oh man that was a happy day. I use old wrapping paper in crafts but now I don't have to be the freaky relative who makes every one save every scrap of it at christmas for fear it will be dumped straight in the trash cause now I know it can go in the recycling, oh yeaaaaaaahhhhh.

Now for a final note I have a general world wide suggestion, why can't take out containers be made out of waffle bowls? SEE why ice cream is the MOST brilliant food, it comes in edible containers, damn....I just realized I didn't get a waffle bowl the other day when I had the chance.
Maybe next time I get take-out I can bring my own waffle bowl and just say fill er up! Mmmmmmm tasty!

UPDATE:
I just found out my Mother gets to recycle plastic 1 through 7 where she is....I am so unbelievably jealous......I wonder if it would be appropriate for me to mail her my plastics 3 through 7 so she could recycle them for me......