The Importance of Recyclin' - Hope Remains and Lomo Sapien

At the Cow Barn we consume immeasurable quantities of coffee. And because most of us have very busy schedules, lotsa the coffee we consume is of the instant variety. All this consumption figures up to lotsa recyclables. So with the kind assistance and also immeasurable musculature of the mighty Lomo, we have just barely succeeded in luggin' one of the instant coffee decanters, together with the bag it came in, here to the photographic studio. And those very items, the instant coffee decanter and the bag it was wrapped in, are here depicted, photographically, to show you what we are up against, recyclin' wise. That's me, Hope Remains, looking especially smart in a green and blue mini-gown.

Mercy, these coffee decanters arrive by mail in enormous big boxes. And inside the big boxes are wrapped up an even dozen, not a baker's dozen, of the decanters in interesting, inflatable plastic bags, an example of which is also depicted here photographically. What are we to do with the decanter, once it is emptied out, and with the inflatable plastic bags and verily also with the great box? Easy that, we recycle 'em. Preferably, we like to find uses for them at the CB and recycle in house. So we put stuff in the decanters, like screws for example. But of course, we accumulate more decanters than is required for screw habitat so many of these decanters have to be shipped away. Yet the market for used glass decanters is in a bust cycle so, periodically we are obliged to haul these decanters and other items of glass, to a recyclin' center across town, where apparently they are more optimistic regarding pre-owned glass futures.

As to the plastic bags, we are reluctant to depart with them. So for the nonce they are merely stored, anticipating the need for some great mailing of optical equipment that no longer meets the stringent requirements of the Panic Attack Defense System or Our Observations on the Tiny and/or Far Away. As to the box, we must break it down and put it in a container out by the little lane that meanders hard upon the Cow Barn.

So recyclin' is much on our minds and thus an important aspect of life at RGVECB. And though some of us, Crumby in particular, wax aggravated by the stringent requirements imposed by our recyclin' program, we should always remember, Recyclin' is Our Duty Now, for the Future.