It recently occured in my house that a border left her garbage (for me; I suppose) to get rid of. She had told me that she had left the lovely room in my house; I opened up for her, completely clean. When I went up for a final inspection, I discovered a big box of trash and garbage was left. I carried the garbage to where she was loading belongings and left it with the rest of her things. She and her family continued to load up the rest of her possessions and drove away. When I went back out; much to my dismay, her garbage I had set out with her things was still sitting in my driveway. 

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   I have thought long about this incident and why someone would feel no responsibility for their own trash; and concluded that there is absolutely no excuse. There is no maid here, nor yard worker to cart away another person's garbage. Who was she expecting to clean up after her. I have had four children and am done cleaning up after others.

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   As you must already know from this web site, I am adamant about waste and recycling. Not only was her garbage dumped on me, but her recycling as well. This woman is mature in age, and so it cannot be written off as a lack of information about this issue.

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 I think that part of the problem begins with the constant removal of garbage by the Waste Management people. People are so used to having what they waste carted away for them, they have no tangible connection to the amount they waste nor where it goes. This is an avenue I have never taken. I recycle everything, and the scraps of plastic that are not able to be recycled I take to the dump once a year. I have less than one 30 gallon garbage bag in 4 months, which is clean of any organic matter which would draw in animals. The trash of the woman I mentioned brought dogs the next day. So there was double the work. This is so unacceptable.

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    I have actually read of a young woman in New York City  who claims to have no waste whatsoever.  If you have read my opening statement you will know that I try each day to use less,and have less, but I definitely have a way to go.  

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   I wonder if some people don't care or are too lazy to be responsible for themselves. On a world scale this is a huge issue. Imagine if 7 billion people are tossing a single use plastic bottle into the landfill at the same time; how fast that would pile up.

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   I am of the mind that we are all responsible for every single item we purchase or have in our belongings; our miraculous mother, "Plant Earth", cannot sustain this kind of irresponsible, non-thinking/non-caring attitude. I urge everyone to step up and do whatever you can to help with this issue, to take part in insuring a better future for our planet, our fellow earth beings and ourselves.