If the speed limit is 25 mph, why do they install speed bumps that necessitate slowing to 15 to keep from damaging your car?
I noticed a new store today — “Simply Amish.” It’s a good name, but why does it give me an uneasy feeling?
Google stock closed today around $711 a share. Why does it continue to rise?
I use a lot of paper towel. I know, I know, not good. Why hasn’t someone come up with a more environmentally correct paper towel? (I have stopped buying bottled water, though. I got a couple of Nalgene bottles at REI and use water from the refrigerator. I find I’m drinking even more water, too.)
A guy pulled up alongside me today as I was cruising at the speed limit in the center lane of a three-lane road. He very determinedly and aggressively gave me the finger. He then sped ahead, cutting in-and-out of lanes. Why? (All I can figure is someone in a car “like mine” must have offended him sometime.)
Yeah, I feel guilty about the amount of paper towels I use, too. Can you recycle paper towels? I’ve never thought about it.
Maybe the furniture store name sounds like a combination of “Simply Stickley”
and “The Amish Connection”
I overuse paper towels and baby wipes. You can clean up anything with the combination of those wonderful creations. They do sometimes end up in my recycling, and then I wonder about whether or not they can be recycled.
Do any of you ever wonder if your recycling actual gets recycled? Around here, they pick the recycling up in the same truck as the trash. Supposedly, it goes into a different section of the truck. It seems a bit suspicious to me.
I’ve spent the last 4 1/2 months working construction at Georgia Pacific’s Wauna, Oregon paper mill, wiring the building that houses their number 7 paper machine.
After seeing what they bring into the paper mill to be made into paper towels and TP I’m a little less concerned about using these products.
Not only that but it’s the most money I’ve ever made (thanks to shift work and overtime) and GP thanked us construction workers on two occasions by giving us paper products. I now have 96 rolls of Quilted Northern and 24 rolls of Kirkland paper towels.
That’s really generous. I mean I’ve worked three or four times at Intel and they never gave me any microprocessors and I worked at the Boeing plant in Everett, WA and they didn’t give me a jet plane. I did get to eat free Oreos fresh from the oven at Nabisco for free though. But milk was $20 a glass.
So I’ve been thinking it would be worth working construction at a Mercedes Benz or BMW factory just in case.
http://www.tucsonrecycles.org/Blue_Barrel_List/blue_barrel_list.html
Paper towels are not recyclable.
@Emily: there was a great Dilbert some years back where he realized the janitor was dumping the recycling bin into the same can that all the other trash went into, so your suspicion is warranted. 😉