December 2nd - cleaning and thinking

[miyabina_hime]

Today started off like many days recently. I get up, kiss Mimu goodbye for the day, tell him to relax because whether he's flipping out or not, he's gonna get to work when he gets to work. Stressing doesn't make you go any faster

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[ammadeena]

My dad and I go protesting against the cutting of trees whenever we can. We had an apple tree and a prune tree and some other large tree-like plants in the backyard once. My mom wanted my dad to cut it down, but he and I just said "No.", so she had it cut when my dad and I were out. I still haven't forgiven her!
That's YEARS ago now, though, and I do encourage her to buy real flowers instead of plastic ones.

This also brings me to something else: world hunger. It's quite easy to solve, isn't it? 1/4 of the 6 billion should just eat a LITTLE less and THROW AWAY LESS!! I've taken a look at the food we (a family of 3: mom, dad and me) allow to get rotten, so we have to throw it away, and I quite literally turned pale. It's disgusting.
So I told mom: Ok, you're bringing ONLY WHAT WE EAT! Leave the afters and betweens! Snack-urge? GET AN APPLE!!
Cookies and all that are wrapped in CARDBOARD, which is made out of TREES..

..oh wait, I was talking about world hunger.
Yeah, I realized that in one year, we throw away enough weight and volume to feed a small African country. And that's just US as a small family of 3. I don't want to know what it's like for Royals and such..

[miyabina_hime]

omg what's wrong with your mom! she's a woman isn't she? more natural connections to the earth and such! why did she want to cut down the tee D:

And yeah, people throw lots of stuff away and now that I don't have a job or anything I feel REALLY bad about it. When I finally got my own apartment and was out of the guesthouse, I decided to read the recycling labels on everything and really follow the area's garbage rules. Japan separates their garbage and most people recycle. But I've found that while almost every type of packaging is plastic and should be organized as such, most people mix plastics and burnables. When Mimu came back form KOrea I had to kind of instruct him to read the label - if it has the plastic symbol on it, it goes in the plastic bin, if it has the paper symbol on it, it's paper recycling, 1 is for plastic bottles, aluminum and steel have their own symbols.. basically everything else is burnable, unburnable, or "special garbage". It makes me wonder though because everywhere you go, burnable garbage collection is twice a week, while plastics are only once a week, but there is SO MUCH FUCKING PACKAGING in this country that by plastic day, we have two FULL bags of it.

Granted, the bags are only 30L size - like grocery bag size.

Then burnables take at least the whole week to fill the bag. So we're doing good with that but the plastic situation is just sad.