In between First Communion parties last weekend, I managed to start working on the yard which hadn’t been touched during the long, cold winter. The lawn, like me, is used to living in the Snow Belt so it survived the 10 or so feet of snow that was dumped on us.
Lots of neighbors were out doing the same thing and many had the special bags that the city sells for their yard waste. One neighbor complained that the bags cost $1.50 each.
That seems crazy for something you are immediately throwing away - that’s the whole reason for its existence - to throw it away.
It brought to mind, a quote from the March 2003 issue (p. 74) of Fast Company that said, “One of the more shocking measures of our ‘prosperity’ is the fact that the United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world’s nations.”
Wow. Now I have an argument (besides being cheap) for my neighbors with their $7.50 worth of trash receptacles on their lawn waiting for Thursday’s pickup.
11:35:49 AM 
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