TheBanyanTree: Early recycling

[Jeri Xiques]

Wonderful to hear from you, Tobie!  Hope you remember more stories to tell
us.
Jeri



On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 4:02 PM <tobie at shpilchas.net> wrote:

> July 6st, 2019
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> Yo tribe!
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>         I don’t want to disturb the silence.  (That should be the whole
> post, right?)  BUT:
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>                 I just remembered something.  My mother,  Meyshe and I
> were speaking about the environment and how just a few decades ago no one
> even thought about it.  Certainly when I was growing up, people just tossed
> everything out without any idea of the finite nature of the world and its
> resources.  But then there were ONLY 3 billion people on the planet.  My
> how you’ve grown.
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>         Around about the early '70s things began to change swiftly.
> Here’s the story I remember.
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>         My very best friend and I had just been called to pick up my
> little brother and his friends from whatever it was that they were doing.
> On the way back to mini central station, the wee youths got hungry and
> complained about their emptiness. (No, it didn’t go any deeper than
> bellies.)  One of them, not my brother, suggested we stop by MacDonald’s.
> Yvonne and I grimaced but complied.  I was driving (VW bus, no less) and
> pulled into the parking lot of the nearest McD’s.  The teenagers piled out,
> ran in, ordered, grabbed the edible loot and came charging back.  There was
> lots of crumpling and rustling going on in the back seat(s).  One of the
> kids happened to look on the outside of a container and saw the triangle
> with the three arrows chasing each others’ tails.  You know the sign.
> Underneath the triangle was the word:  RECYCLABLE.   The kid looked at me
> and Yvonne in the front seats and asked, "What does this mean?"
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>         Yvonne took a cursory rude look at it and said, "It means: We
> didn’t, but you can."
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>         And that’s just one of the reasons she’s my best friend.
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>         I’ve of course got lots more to say, but this passed inspection
> for, "things I will allow myself to think about today."
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> Carry on!
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> "While the mind thinks of ways to destroy the enemy, the heart thinks of
> ways to heal the enemy."       Meyshe B. Shapiro-Nygren
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> Tobie Shapiro
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