Every Thursday we go through the same ritual. We gather all the trash in the house, throw it in the bin and then ask the same question, “What Thursday is this?”
The question pertains to the every-other-Thursday that requires the additional recycling bin to accompany the trash bin. Now, we in the Austin house have not reached the pinnacle of the recycling food chain but we are trying. So, in the course of two weeks, we pretty much fill our recycling bin. So if we miss a week, we’re in trouble.
One missed week of recycling means that we have to wait another two weeks before we can set out the green bin beside the blue. And if we wait that long, its a guarantee that some things that should be recycled won’t fit into its designated container, thereby relegating the left over reusable refuse into the blue bin intended for every day trash, like old paint cans, dead animals, and jars of mercury. And I really don’t need that kind of guilt.
