Friday, July 18th, 2008
Bring It Home After the Game
Sometimes recycling things takes a little work, but thankfully a little effort can go a long way. Every week in the summer time, I play softball. The captain of the team brings a cooler of ice cold bottled water to the game, bless him. Unfortunately, there are only trash cans near the softball fields. For the past couple weeks, I have started collecting the empty water bottles and bringing them home to put in our recycling bin, which the town picks up. Except for my teammates trying to move my collection of bottles to the trash barrels, last week I had to intercept two of my teammates who had kindly picked up the bottles to throw away, this has been really easy. I load a dozen or so empty bottles (and the occasional empty beer can) into my bag and take it home. The empties are extremely light and I don’t notice the added weight. I do not know how much energy or oil is saved, but it adds up quickly when you consider how many bottles would be going into the landfill otherwise at a dozen or so a week.
So next time your out somewhere and there isn’t a friendly recycling bin available, consider throwing the empty into your bag instead of the trash.
And before anyone comments on it, I myself refill a bottle with water for the games.
