I Wish
I wish that I could retire right now and just find someone to fund all the public improvement projects that have been racing around in my head for the last several weeks. Le sigh.
But since I can't....
Raise your hand if...
...you would like to see Fairfax County/Fairfax City step up their recycling efforts and accept more stuff
...you would like to arrange to get recycling bins, even simple commingled types, into fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and gas stations
...you would like to have a way to get kitchen and yard waste to a communal compost heap to be used in county/city landscaping projects, or even sold to county/city residents
...you have old jeans that are too shredded to donate and insufficient artistic ability to repurpose them
...you live in a community that has space available for public gardens but no public gardens
...you are a little saddened by the stark white concrete of the Mixing Bowl and the staggering number of old-growth trees being sacrificed to (much needed) Beltway improvements
I realize that starting everything above, with the possible exception of the old jeans problem and the public gardens one, requires an outlay of money that the county just doesn't have right now. But increasing the recycling facilities would ultimately create more jobs, wouldn't it? Thus creating more tax revenue for the county to spend?
This is what I get for watching Planet Green, I suppose, but what really triggered it was seeing San Francisco's recycling system at work. My cousin has a bin for trash, a bin for recyclables of every conceivable type, and a bin for stuff to be turned into compost. The city of San Francisco does a collection for all of these things! Even the compost stuff! Carey and her three roommates combined produce less than one half of one small kitchen trash can's worth of landfill garbage each week. San Francisco, I might add, also has collection points for sad old jeans, which are sent somewhere to begin a new life as building insulation.
It seems like there are so many little things we could be doing that we just. aren't. doing. So frustrating.
But since I can't....
Raise your hand if...
...you would like to see Fairfax County/Fairfax City step up their recycling efforts and accept more stuff
...you would like to arrange to get recycling bins, even simple commingled types, into fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and gas stations
...you would like to have a way to get kitchen and yard waste to a communal compost heap to be used in county/city landscaping projects, or even sold to county/city residents
...you have old jeans that are too shredded to donate and insufficient artistic ability to repurpose them
...you live in a community that has space available for public gardens but no public gardens
...you are a little saddened by the stark white concrete of the Mixing Bowl and the staggering number of old-growth trees being sacrificed to (much needed) Beltway improvements
I realize that starting everything above, with the possible exception of the old jeans problem and the public gardens one, requires an outlay of money that the county just doesn't have right now. But increasing the recycling facilities would ultimately create more jobs, wouldn't it? Thus creating more tax revenue for the county to spend?
This is what I get for watching Planet Green, I suppose, but what really triggered it was seeing San Francisco's recycling system at work. My cousin has a bin for trash, a bin for recyclables of every conceivable type, and a bin for stuff to be turned into compost. The city of San Francisco does a collection for all of these things! Even the compost stuff! Carey and her three roommates combined produce less than one half of one small kitchen trash can's worth of landfill garbage each week. San Francisco, I might add, also has collection points for sad old jeans, which are sent somewhere to begin a new life as building insulation.
It seems like there are so many little things we could be doing that we just. aren't. doing. So frustrating.