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I just got a big beautiful 12 page paper mailer from West Hills Athletic Facility. It’s an athletic club that the University bought that nobody I know actually goes to because it’s too expensive. It’s like any other athletic club, looks good on the outside, smells awful on the inside, it’s overpriced and I’ve got no interest in it at all. It’s good to know they have cash to burn on these big mailers. What would be more convenient for everyone and save them lots of money is if they’d just ship out PDF files in email, save the paper costs, the printing costs, and enable me to place the from address into my junk mail list and have it sent to the great bit-bucket in the sky. A win for West Hills’ advertising budget and a win for me and everyone else who doesn’t want to have to find something like this in their campus mailbox just to immediately toss it in the recycling bin.

I suppose I could just clearly print on a sticky-note on our campus mailbox a list of all the spammy bits of debris that we elect to not get. That’s an idea! 😉

Spy Hill Landfill – 2

I can’t throw away plastic supermarket bags. My reluctance is because they are such a waste of difficult-to-degrade plastic if their only purpose is to sack up food for conveyance from a store. I believe deep down that if you are going to sack your food in plastic that once you get it home, those bags ought to have a second or third life in the home, a kind of active recycling. In my household plastic shopping bags are used to hold bottle and can recycling, used to contain too-old leftovers so they can be thrown in the garbage without their degradation becoming noticeable, and finally being handy receptacles for cat exhaust. If the bags just go right into the garbage from the market then their 10 minutes of use and 3000 year lingering feels like a horrible sin. If you can get them to do a host of other things, then I believe you should. People look at me oddly when I tell them to save the bags, some people just immediately throw them away, but I hope by answering this Plinky prompt, they understand why that isn’t right.

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