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Skidmore

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12. Let's talk about the number of disposable electronics consumed

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:26 PM

Nov 2012

in the form of cell phones, tablets, cables, etc. Everyone dropping their current toy for the next one.

The other two things that drive me nuts are disposable diapers and stick pens. I washed cloth diapers for my two and only used disposables on trips, and disposables were a new invention back then. Remember those plastic pants you put over the cloth diaper and washed and washed until they would spring a leak?

Stick pens are an abomination. Period. Especially those damned pens pushed for advertising a company. They are everywhere. No way to recycle them that I'm aware of. Loathe them.

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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested... (on being Green) [View all] Whisp Nov 2012 OP

Very well said! HappyMe Nov 2012 #1

And 50 years ago there were half as many people on the planet. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #2

'did not care enough' is both rude and uninformed. elleng Nov 2012 #3

Arrogant to the point of bigotry, really. Although no one has to *teach* me on it. I'm a green nazi. freshwest Nov 2012 #48

But no one actually said this. It's a cutesy anecdote. antigone382 Nov 2012 #58

Touche! eom ChisolmTrailDem Nov 2012 #4

seems the younger generation like their time and effort loli phabay Nov 2012 #5

Let's talk about the number of disposable electronics consumed Skidmore Nov 2012 #12

I could give up ballpoint pens for real ink pens, but not plastic diapers. I too washed many northoftheborder Nov 2012 #17

I sure would have loved to have a dryer Skidmore Nov 2012 #19

They didn't invent it though treestar Nov 2012 #68

My mother and mother-in-law were children of the Depression ... frazzled Nov 2012 #6

same here: mother and inlaws so frugal, recycling and saving everything. They grew up in the northoftheborder Nov 2012 #18

I do that with the plastic veggie bags. noamnety Nov 2012 #42

You can buy reusable veggie bags. athena Nov 2012 #75

I actually made some noamnety Nov 2012 #77

Bottle deposits were a good way to pick up a little pocket money when I was a kid. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #7

Indeed, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #8

Cokes (6.5 oz) were a nickel from the machine in the break room where my mom worked. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #14

Nickel It Was, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #15

Saw those some places but this one was an upright machine. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #16

of all the things that annoy me on this topic the most, it is plastic bottles of water Whisp Nov 2012 #9

Augh! yes, I've tried to explain this to my co-workers Scootaloo Nov 2012 #22

This story has been around No Vested Interest Nov 2012 #10

I haven't seen it before. n/t Whisp Nov 2012 #11

The supermarket that I visit has a whole section set aside for returns of cans. plastic bottles, bluestate10 Nov 2012 #13

Snotty, ignorant clerk never heard this said by the folks who survived the Depression: kestrel91316 Nov 2012 #20

Oh gawd - you made me feel so old closeupready Nov 2012 #23

Argh! The pain! blackspade Nov 2012 #60

Please... toddwv Nov 2012 #21

I have a hard time believing this story. athena Nov 2012 #24

Like it is so hard to believe that someone is smug and holier than thou about their "greenness?" Lightbulb_on Nov 2012 #25

I don't think it's a conversation between real people. Whisp Nov 2012 #26

As an environmentalist ... athena Nov 2012 #28

More Old BS to make the Polystyrene Generation feel good about poisoning their children, slampoet Nov 2012 #27

Our "trash can" was a very small waste bin SoCalDem Nov 2012 #29

Wasn't this posted here some time back ? seems like one of those emails that get JI7 Nov 2012 #30

I doubt these are actual two people in real life having this conversation. Whisp Nov 2012 #31

It matters a great deal. athena Nov 2012 #71

this story isn't about a particular old lady or a particular 'rude'/whatever clerk Whisp Nov 2012 #74

This is completely fake and written by a young person. slampoet Nov 2012 #44

It sounds like you had a bad pen. athena Nov 2012 #73

THen i had seven bad pens in a row. slampoet Nov 2012 #79

Wow. You just called me a liar. athena Dec 2012 #80

Oh yeah? We walked 15 miles up hill to school every day. progressoid Nov 2012 #32

I remember way back when abelenkpe Nov 2012 #34

LOL! Whisp Nov 2012 #35

In the snow..... Grammy23 Nov 2012 #51

If you were lucky. progressoid Nov 2012 #63

Also we bought lots of locally grown foods. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2012 #33

Love the farmers market on the weekend! nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #37

This is an ugly BS story abelenkpe Nov 2012 #36

that's what I don't quite like either. Whisp Nov 2012 #39

So true! nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #46

Well, call me a cranky over-70 grannie, classof56 Nov 2012 #38

Class of 54 DakotaLady Nov 2012 #54

Thanks, DakotaLady. I know what you mean! classof56 Nov 2012 #78

"did not care enough??" WTF! People didn't know, my grandparents had an incinerator they sure the Raine Nov 2012 #40

When I was growing up a long time ago, we had a very small carbon footprint. rhett o rick Nov 2012 #41

"Small carbon footprint?" johnd83 Nov 2012 #47

Cars and gadgets take a lot of resources to make. nm rhett o rick Nov 2012 #49

Cars last much longer than they used to. My car is 15 years old and going strong. johnd83 Nov 2012 #52

If one of my cashiers had said that Codeine Nov 2012 #43

back then, many lived w/ a smaller energy & resource depletion footprint, so not entirely true...eom amborin Nov 2012 #45

Plus we had those weird things called... whistler162 Nov 2012 #50

Good Point, thanks Whisp! I miss bottles! nm Cha Nov 2012 #53

You are exactly right we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, doc03 Nov 2012 #55

Why, Oh why ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #56

This is terrible but we used to go behind the local store and doc03 Nov 2012 #59

Shhh ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #65

Good point. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #57

Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle. Snarkoleptic Nov 2012 #61

as a kid i always collected bottles...up to a nickel if you returned it to a store... spanone Nov 2012 #62

My generation had cloth diapers and glass soda containers and milk bottles lunatica Nov 2012 #64

I don't think that our desire for convenience and indulgences at the cost of... LanternWaste Nov 2012 #66

But then we went for the convenient plastic treestar Nov 2012 #67

Except the makers of "waxed-paper", a material you seldom saw strewn along the side of the highway. 1-Old-Man Nov 2012 #70

In my town... GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #69

This. Never. Happened. It's called "a set-up to the punchline." WinkyDink Nov 2012 #72

I did my part to be green... Jasana Nov 2012 #76