Shelli Armstrong
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Queer social worker by day, amateur writer by evening, and sleeping by 10:00pm.
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I once asked my now-wife if she had ever had a recycling bin. She lived in London at the time, and they had larger bins, but she never really recycled because, “I never really had the room for another bin.” Living in such a populous city, her space was limited, and recycling was the last thing on her mind when it came to her very small kitchen. While I lived in Midwest, recycling was second nature to my family when the opportunity presented itself in the form of large blue bins, and an elimination of the city’s imposed trash bill. We gathered up our beer cans and old newspapers and filled it to the brim with cardboard boxes. “We’re helping the planet,” my dad would tell me. But what else could we do if others were not able?
By Shelli Armstrong5 years ago in Earth
