Being a suburb of a large city, everybody uses Amazon because they have a huge warehouse close by and you can get same-day delivery on some items. We also have a lot of porch piracy. We recycle, but some who have been plagued by the pirates will fill the empty boxes with less desirable things like used cat litter or trash. Then leave them on the porch for the pirates.
Unfortunately for the Brits they went out of their way to Brexitize one of their fav fruits along with most everything else they try to import. They cost so much more now, if available, I think they have renamed the fruit to brexit bananas. It's a brexit win you know. Pay more get rich, or at least someone gets richer.
Right the 'producers' kind of flew right over that one. The good old days of banana republics are over, at least we think they are. When I saw the judiciously distributed fly over of the banana fields, for a second there I thought they shot that scene in Florida.
I'm so conflicted about Amazon. I know it's evil, but I neeeddddd it. I literally live at the recycling bins and I always have to fight the urge to take something OUT and take it home.
Hey, my conflict is even greater! My financial success as a writer is due to Amazon's KDP which has permitted me to sell over half a million books--but at least I can tell myself that since most of those books are ebooks, at least I'm not generating lots and lots of boxes or cutting down trees to create the books. But as someone pretty much confined to home because of Covid and immune suppressed body, we get an amazon delivery 4-5 times a week, often several times a day. I spend a good deal of time figuring out how to order things at the same time that should come in a single box in one delivery, but the truth of the matter, I love getting deliveries, tending to sing the song from the Music Man, "The Wells Fargo Wagon is a coming" as I see the trucks pull up. Saying thanks to the delivery person is also one of the few face-to-face social interactions I get a week! Thank goodness our city has curbside recycling, so at least all I have to do is to figure how to disassemble the boxes and fold them up so they will fit in the recycle bin that is only picked up every two weeks!
omg, NOW I'M GOING TO SING THAT EVERY DAY LOL Amazon is such a blessing and a curse.
Our problem, of course, with the recycling bins, is the abuse. They were removed from one small village near me because everyone just dumped their trash there. But we have many others, which is fairly progressive this far out.
I can't believe they only pick up every two weeks, that's insane.
We have a "vermicomposter," which is a composting system where worms eat food scraps and waste materials and produce fertilizer. Worms LOVE to eat cardboard, so we try to save our boxes for them. Also, we don't even have Amazon Prime and hardly ever shop there, so we receive very few boxes at our house. In summary, you'd think we'd be able to naturally recycle our limited cardboard and reduce waste, right?
Not when "your four-pack of batteries arrives at your house in a box the size of a small couch."
Convenience and cost will always triumph, which is why the turtles are doomed.
No, there's zero hope. I saw something on Shark Tank the other night that I loved, it turns kitchen grease into a solid that will decompose naturally. I don't think anybody bought it, because of course not.
Being a suburb of a large city, everybody uses Amazon because they have a huge warehouse close by and you can get same-day delivery on some items. We also have a lot of porch piracy. We recycle, but some who have been plagued by the pirates will fill the empty boxes with less desirable things like used cat litter or trash. Then leave them on the porch for the pirates.
I’m always very hyper that something’s going to be stolen, but so far so good.
Here's one of tons of banana vids with boxes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95N3A8Sk0o
Unfortunately for the Brits they went out of their way to Brexitize one of their fav fruits along with most everything else they try to import. They cost so much more now, if available, I think they have renamed the fruit to brexit bananas. It's a brexit win you know. Pay more get rich, or at least someone gets richer.
omg. Oh, yeah, I'm sure the workers are super protected from the insecticides.
Right the 'producers' kind of flew right over that one. The good old days of banana republics are over, at least we think they are. When I saw the judiciously distributed fly over of the banana fields, for a second there I thought they shot that scene in Florida.
That's exactly what I thought about that shot - "Pay no mind to the prevailing winds" LOL
Thanks for my first laugh out loud moment of the day!!!
I'm so conflicted about Amazon. I know it's evil, but I neeeddddd it. I literally live at the recycling bins and I always have to fight the urge to take something OUT and take it home.
Hey, my conflict is even greater! My financial success as a writer is due to Amazon's KDP which has permitted me to sell over half a million books--but at least I can tell myself that since most of those books are ebooks, at least I'm not generating lots and lots of boxes or cutting down trees to create the books. But as someone pretty much confined to home because of Covid and immune suppressed body, we get an amazon delivery 4-5 times a week, often several times a day. I spend a good deal of time figuring out how to order things at the same time that should come in a single box in one delivery, but the truth of the matter, I love getting deliveries, tending to sing the song from the Music Man, "The Wells Fargo Wagon is a coming" as I see the trucks pull up. Saying thanks to the delivery person is also one of the few face-to-face social interactions I get a week! Thank goodness our city has curbside recycling, so at least all I have to do is to figure how to disassemble the boxes and fold them up so they will fit in the recycle bin that is only picked up every two weeks!
omg, NOW I'M GOING TO SING THAT EVERY DAY LOL Amazon is such a blessing and a curse.
Our problem, of course, with the recycling bins, is the abuse. They were removed from one small village near me because everyone just dumped their trash there. But we have many others, which is fairly progressive this far out.
I can't believe they only pick up every two weeks, that's insane.
We have a "vermicomposter," which is a composting system where worms eat food scraps and waste materials and produce fertilizer. Worms LOVE to eat cardboard, so we try to save our boxes for them. Also, we don't even have Amazon Prime and hardly ever shop there, so we receive very few boxes at our house. In summary, you'd think we'd be able to naturally recycle our limited cardboard and reduce waste, right?
Not when "your four-pack of batteries arrives at your house in a box the size of a small couch."
Convenience and cost will always triumph, which is why the turtles are doomed.
No, there's zero hope. I saw something on Shark Tank the other night that I loved, it turns kitchen grease into a solid that will decompose naturally. I don't think anybody bought it, because of course not.
Worse still, it probably decomposes "naturally" into fossil fuels. Just like the dinosaurs before us.