[Company Man]

and their plastic kayaks to go protest the oil rigs

I see what you did there

[21twelve]

If these people REALLY wanted to help Mother Gaia, they would skip the local protests (although they are convenient for those that have condos above the Starbucks) and head overseas and protest China and other third world countries where they don't care AT ALL about the environment, or their workers.

One of the reasons why my electronics get smashed and tossed into the garbage. It will go into a local, modern landfill with double-liners, leachate collection systems, etc.

Give it to the recycle people and it gets put on a container and shipped to China where 10-year old kids tear them about, kneeling in open ditches with solvents running through them, open fires burning the insulation off the wires, etc.