wastefulness

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scarlet_woman @scarlet_woman (23463) • United States 20 Dec 17

the island where i live is divided up into 3 towns..recently,all 3 voted to ban plastic shopping bags.so many of them were blowing around from being improperly thrown away,they were becoming a real problem. now the choices are...

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Your Tax Dollars NOT At Work

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 17 Oct 16

I received another check today for my travel expenses to the VA hospital. The check was for -- sit down, hold on tight -- sixty four cents. Yes, that's $0.64. I just put a check in the bank for the same amount...

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What do you think when you see people wasting things?

PearlGrace @PearlGrace (3171) • United States 20 Sep 08

Since living green is something many of us are thinking about, how do you feel when you see people wasting things? You know, like throwing out a perfectly good chair to buy a new one or putting a TV that works out by the curb to...

replacing working items with new items

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Going green rant #2

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 3 Aug 08

I am on a rant roll right now LOL So before I ranted about how little individual packs of everything are not "green" in any sense. Here is another rant ... scrapbooking! How ungreen can we get? While everyone is trying to...

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Clearly, these folks never heard the phrase, "environmentally friendly"!

gardengrrl @gardengrrl (1445) • United States 3 Mar 08

My brother got a coupon in the mail last week for a free pack of cigarettes when he buys one. Did it come in a small, recycled-paper envelope? Oh, no, no, no, my dear - it came IN A BOX. A six-piece, tri-fold, box within flaps...

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What DO you do with them?

Modestah @Modestah (11177) • United States 18 Apr 07

spin off from the other discussion.... okay, so we've determined that a lot of people do not like the heels on their store purchased breads.... So, you are down to the bottom of the loaf - 2 wimpy heels remain, perhaps even a...

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When is bigger - or even cheaper - NOT better??

SaraCate @SaraCate (184) • Canada 18 Feb 07

My answer is when it leads to gratuitous wastefulness. A case in point: a well-known retail outlet stocked (and perhaps still does...) 1-gallon jars of pickles at very low prices. Anecdotes abound to the effect that folks would...

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