tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post773373854434170707..comments2024-01-06T10:36:03.652-05:00Comments on The Word Guild: This Beautiful Earth—Carolyn R. Wilker Glynishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15621548333351709607noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-7908404221533977632014-07-28T08:29:32.214-04:002014-07-28T08:29:32.214-04:00Thank you, Peter, Tracy, David and Glynis for your...Thank you, Peter, Tracy, David and Glynis for your comments. I struck a chord among you. I have also been known to pick up litter. I think, Peter, not all the sites are at the same level of development for handling the recycling but in our municipality I have seen the workers put different items in separate areas on the truck. I don't know what their organizational model is. Mom used to take our picnic garbage home if there was no receptacle for it and I tend to do the same rather than pile it on an ever-growing heap. Carolyn R. Wilkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424541949101135087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-27464126207950266822014-07-24T09:29:13.448-04:002014-07-24T09:29:13.448-04:00Oh how very true. Some great points, Carolyn. Than...Oh how very true. Some great points, Carolyn. Thanks for this. We do have a responsibility to keep the environment as God intended - beautiful. Yet we continue to ignore so much. Like Peter, I could go on and on, so I won`t even begin - but I do remember a time that my children were awakened to sloth and bad attitude - we were at a local fast food place. A car full of young people, who were parked next to a garbage can tossed their garbage out on the parking lot. As they were pulling away I called out to them to pick up their trash please. After a mouth full of expletives and a `they get paid for picking it up` retort, they sped off. My kiddos were little at the time but we proceeded to pick it all up and the conversation we had after that remained forever etched in all our minds. Now, 20 some odd years later, they still remember that incident and are big proponents of picking up litter - even though it`s not there`s! It has to start young! And a lot of young people are really good at being responsible. It takes a few bad apples. . .Glynishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15621548333351709607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-3220289247274258482014-07-14T08:43:13.791-04:002014-07-14T08:43:13.791-04:00I'm probably most irritated by litter in the p...I'm probably most irritated by litter in the park -- irritated enough to pick it up and put it in the garbage nearby -- the same one that was that was ignored by the person who left their deposit. We can all do our part. Thanks for the reminder.David Kitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287700314450750680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-70021396262766871002014-07-11T16:53:14.145-04:002014-07-11T16:53:14.145-04:00thanks for the tipsthanks for the tipsTracy Krausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066853243062725525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-5648342486788567472014-07-11T14:38:30.618-04:002014-07-11T14:38:30.618-04:00Carolyn, thank you for sharing your evident deligh...Carolyn, thank you for sharing your evident delight in and appreciation for nature, and pressing our stewardship of the earth. I'm with you on the respecting nature and recycling. I'm bugged when we take time as instructed by our municipality to separate our paper waste from plastic, glass and metal-can waste, only to see the recycling trucker dump them all into the same compartment in his truck. Also, we use water filters for our drinking water, but there's no recycling icon, and presumably no recycling facilities for the relatively thick white plastic containers of the filtration material. Likewise, for the popular single coffee blend cups. Etc, etc. (Hmm, I do go on, don't I!) Keep up the good work. :) ~~+~~Peter Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529992196266271463noreply@blogger.com