Earth

Happy Earth Day! I have to confess that this is THE very first Earth Day I have ever paid attention to, yet today I was downright giddy for an excuse to wear my very green J. Crew jacket from a few seasons ago. I used to throw away every possible thing I could and simply couldn't be bothered with recycling. And I thought people who thought that was awful were just weird. Our lovely city provides us with curbside recycling and for four whole years I just lamented that I couldn't put trash in that container as well. What a waste! Well....this year my son's school did some kind of recycling project and he brought home all these brochures. What can I say? It just clicked. All of a sudden not recycling was akin to trashing your own house. It started out with aluminum cans and plastic and now...well, I admit it-I scavenge through the trash at home just to make sure we don't throw anything away that could be recycled. I have started taking away the plastic from work thanks to my not-so-green employer. So it has come full circle, I am now one of the weird ones. Now if I can just get it together enough to start composting...