[wally_bert]

My wife makes sure that nothing but the cleanest trash goes out.

True believer in recycling.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My wife makes sure that nothing but the cleanest trash goes out.

Reminds me of the time my parents got a new dishwasher and my dad wanted to put the old one out for the trash. My mother did not want him to do this until he first SCRUBBED IT CLEAN, because she did not want to be embarrassed by having a dirty, cruddy old dishwasher out on the curb for neighbors to see.

My dad did a lot of eye-rolling and grunting. But at the end of the day he cleaned it up before taking it to the curb.

[Nothingburger]

Thanks for responding to my post.

On a personal level, I’m actually a great believer in recycling.

I save containers from just about every suitable packaged food that goes into my kitchen.

Leftovers are always with us ... but hopefully not for too long. I was brought up in the old school that holds any waste of food is certainly a waste of money, and, if not actually sinful, just bad form in general.

But as for recycling on the macro level ... except for metals it just doesn’t pay, and only serves to make enviroweenies feel good about themselves.

But then, if you’re an enviroweenie, feeling good about yourself is the whole point.