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Siblings and cousins are playing in our connected backyards. The cousins from Ecuador are here on their extended spring visit. Being the good grandma that I am, I call them for a snack. I stand on our back porch, and as they run up, hand each one a cheese stick, help the little ones pull the wrapper open, and give them a housekeeping reminder:
“Remember. Put your plastic wrapper in the trashcan.”
Stephy, one of the cousins from Ecuador, looked in the direction of the garbage containers. There, lined up, were the bins: yellow, gray, blue, green. With a good deal of puzzlement she asked:
“Uh, which color?”
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Which color for a plastic cheese wrapper? Pick the correct answer:
A. Yellow = glass and batteries
B. Gray = garbage and anything that can’t recycle
C. Blue – things we can recycle
D. Green – things that can go in a compost
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The color coding of trash is really an interesting and relatively new idea. I must admit I still put my glass and plastic recycling in an old black garbage can. I really should get with the times, but it would be so wasteful to just throw out the old can…sigh….
I love that question she asked! Two summers ago our township had a place to drop off compostable material. I LOVED that. Now I’m back to just garbage, regular recycling, and the special recycling container for clear plastic that we have to drive to drop off.
Alice,
Color-coded trash is inspiring to me. I might write a poem about it. We keep our recycling simple, thanks to our town’s facilities that enable us to keep three rather than five containers. We don’t compost. I suppose we should.