Yesterday at lunch my coworker used not one, but two plastic forks to eat her lunch with---a lunch, may
I add, that came in one of those prepackaged Lean Cuisine meals with the plastic tray. I really had to suppress the urge to leap across the table to snatch the forks from her hand and replace them with a metal one. Needless to say, she did not wash the plastic forks, nor did she wash out the recyclable plastic tray and take it home with her to recycle. No---she chucked them in the garbage. Ah, but I did have my revenge---I took the basket of plastic forks and spoons and I hid them deep in the cabinet---HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Guess what---today at lunch there was another basket full of plastic silverware! It felt like that South Park episode when the boys destroyed the "Wall-Mart" one day, and the next day it was there again, as if nothing had changed. As usual, my coworker used a plastic fork with her lunch, and promptly threw it away when she was done. Here's what I did today: I waited until everyone left and I picked her plastic fork from the garbage, washed it, and put it back in the basket.
Am I one of those "Environmental Wackos" that Rush Limbaugh rails against? I sure hope so. I don't think it's too "wacko" to do everything in your power to reduce plastic waste. It sickens me to think of the amount of plastic waste created in our cafeteria. I remember using metal silverware in lunch as a kid---why can't students today be entrusted with metal silverware? Why can't the adults I work with use metal silverware in our faculty room? Oh, yeah---we live in a "convenience society". Why, it's too difficult to take 10 seconds out of your day to wash your silverware and put it in the drying rack, right?!?
Well, what a comfort it is that every time we throw out our plastic silverware, we can rest assured that we are adding yet another nonbiodegradable product to the environment. Thumbs up... and #@*!!!
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