We have been slowly, but surely clearing out our downstairs storage room since the new BIG deep freeze arrived a few weeks ago. We keep down there all the inane stuff you normally have in a storage room - suitcases, sleeping bags, random boxes of books and pictures, etc, etc. I also have shelves of my canned goods in there, boxes of root crops, and several winter squashes. Then there was the box of burned out compact fluorescent bulbs, the box of used up alkaline batteries, and a pile of random stuff meant for the thrift store...things I didn't want to throw out, but they made it only as far as down the stairs.
This week I not only took a van load of recyclables (newspaper, aluminum, metal, plastic and glass) to the local recycling center, but JP unloaded the box of old bulbs at a Lowe's store, and I dumped the box of batteries off at a battery recycling center in Washington. I also took a pile of old flower pots up to our local nursery, where they offer them to the public...I actually picked most of them up there a couple of weeks ago to put stuff from my flower beds into while it was under construction. I took a bag of shoes to a friend, and now I have to ready the rest of the pile for a trip to the thrift store.
I feel pretty good about my attempts to be environmentally conscious...until I think of all those greenhouse gases I burn every time I drive somewhere with a load of things to recycle.
Maybe I've almost broken even in the end?
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