Spring cleaning amid worldwide pandemic
“It's not that bad".
People are happy lining up waiting 2+ hours to go to the dump in their A/C'ed cars eating, drinking, being on their phones, listening to music. Most are actually in their “big bad trucks". They bring their kids, dogs, cats [no jokes], wives, husbands, friends along. Two hours to go through the dump to get rid of their trash. Like-new washer and dryer, couches, old mattresses, kids' outdoor toys and playhouses. Some even make 3 trips in a day totalling about 6 hours of their awake time being at the dump. Since when this is counted as “spending time with your kids" activity? It’s a rare mid-70s sunny afternoon in Seattle Spring. Cool breezes, and you could see Rainier!
The worldwide pandemic with 40 millions lost their jobs in the USA alone. “Stay home, and stay healthy", NO! Let's spend our days at the dump. Let's make excuses to go to the dump. Eighteen or Eighty years old, excuses are excuses: “Just a few CFL bulbs", “two mirrors", “an old printer", “some dried up paints”, “just some plastic bags”...
Thrift store donation processing centers are mostly closed down. If they are open, there are new procedures, hours, and they would only open a hand full of their locations. But it's spring cleaning time i.e. the season for throwing big bulky stuff away to be exact (when did this practice start? Please someone tell me! I am dying to know). We need a place to dump our unwanted stuff, and we need it now!
If I may, “trash": stuff that cause inconveniences to humans' "precious" “busy” awake minutes. Also, “trash": that plastic packaging that just a few seconds ago houses your food. “Trash": keeping us humans “safer” and live longer and “healthier”. On living longer and healthier note, do I want to live ‘till 100+ years old? What would I do then but consuming resources and trying not to shit myself, literally? All my zero waste and minimalist efforts would be unachievable then if I need 7 prescriptions to keep me going, am in diapers and live on microwavable single-portion meals. Hmmm... Questions of the day: who thought of burying trash in the first place? What are we going to to with our landfills 30, 40, 50 years from now? What are we going to do when we run out of virgin materials?
