Recycling

Much has been made of the recent announcement by the Howard County Schools that students will no longer be able to recycle trash in school lunch rooms beginning in 2020. In general, we feel as though it ought to be possible. In reality, this kind of recycling is becoming less and less feasible, for a variety of reasons. 

I noted with excitement that Moms Organic Market in Jessup is now set up to recycle a wide variety of items including shoes, cell phones, batteries, baby food pouches, and more, Check them out.

A different kind of recycling today - - take a look back at this post from a year ago about the ALICE report from United Way. This paragraph leapt out at me:

It feels good to be in our bubble of like-minded people. It feels like home. If someone challenges our comfortable life by suggesting that we open our eyes (our neighborhoods? Our schools?) to that other twenty-five per cent we may bristle. It’s one thing to make a donation to help people who are mostly out of sight and out of mind. It’s quite another to invite them to dinner. To call them neighbor and friend. To make their priorities our priorities.

Take a minute to read it. I think it’s worth a second look.