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In reply to the discussion: Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested... (on being Green) [View all]abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)46. So true! nt
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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested... (on being Green) [View all]
Whisp
Nov 2012
OP
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
I could give up ballpoint pens for real ink pens, but not plastic diapers. I too washed many
northoftheborder
Nov 2012
#17
same here: mother and inlaws so frugal, recycling and saving everything. They grew up in the
northoftheborder
Nov 2012
#18
Bottle deposits were a good way to pick up a little pocket money when I was a kid.
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#7
Cokes (6.5 oz) were a nickel from the machine in the break room where my mom worked.
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#14
of all the things that annoy me on this topic the most, it is plastic bottles of water
Whisp
Nov 2012
#9
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
Like it is so hard to believe that someone is smug and holier than thou about their "greenness?"
Lightbulb_on
Nov 2012
#25
More Old BS to make the Polystyrene Generation feel good about poisoning their children,
slampoet
Nov 2012
#27
this story isn't about a particular old lady or a particular 'rude'/whatever clerk
Whisp
Nov 2012
#74
"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
Cars last much longer than they used to. My car is 15 years old and going strong.
johnd83
Nov 2012
#52
back then, many lived w/ a smaller energy & resource depletion footprint, so not entirely true...eom
amborin
Nov 2012
#45
as a kid i always collected bottles...up to a nickel if you returned it to a store...
spanone
Nov 2012
#62
I don't think that our desire for convenience and indulgences at the cost of...
LanternWaste
Nov 2012
#66