Monday, November 09, 2015

How Far Would YOU Go?

It appears that Starbucks and Tim Hortons in Canada May Not Actually Be Recycling Their Coffee Cups ,as they claim to have been doing.



An investigation revealed that many paper cups collected by some Canadian Starbucks and Tim Hortons coffee shops for recycling are being sent to landfill, not to a recycling plant, as we were led to believe.


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This is reason to continue to bring a reusable cup with you when you order take-out coffee and wish to do your part for the environment.

But how far would YOU go to help protect the environment?

An American man vowed to live trash-free for a year. He had to change his way of life and he had to get creative but the experiment was a success.

For example, he tried to think ahead. He carried a fork, a spoon, a plate and a bowl everywhere he went, just in case an event served food but provided only plastic cutlery to eat with.

He was living at the time of the experiment in Ann Arbor, Michigan; one of America’s most environmentally conscious cites. He could purchase most of his food unpackaged, and there were several great secondhand stores if he really needed something — "shops where the shoes didn’t come in boxes and the tools weren’t wrapped in protective plastic casing."

Kudos to him. The Mistress applauds his efforts. What began as a one-year experiment ultimately lasted two and a half years. But here's where The Mistress would personally draw the line...

Five months into the experiment, after some initial reservations, he gave up toilet paper. He chose to use only water and his hand to clean up after he'd done "his business."



Could YOU go this far?

28 comments:

  1. Given Starbucks' reputation for putting evangelical bullshit on their cups, I am surprised people don't just throw them back across the counter... Jx

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  2. I am living in a trailer with no running water and I just finished doing my laundry by hand, my clothes are now hanging on the beech saplings awaiting this evening's rain for their final rinse. I finally managed to get internet in my caravan late last night.
    I am living it.

    Miss You!
    xoxox

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    1. WALLY: Welcome back!

      We’ve had a sign made for you.

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    2. darling, caravan living can be fabulous!

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    3. Nothing like a fancy caravan. Just think....if the cabin is a rocking, don't come a knockin sign is in order! Miss you lots!

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    4. Hey Everybody!
      Miss you all lots and I'll be making the rounds soon. I think that I need to do a post about everything that's been happening on my end.
      That sign's a keeper!

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    5. WALLY: You definitely need to bring us up to speed on your glamorous new lifestyle.

      If you need to upgrade your accommodations, why not consider living at the Infomaniac Trailer Park?

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  3. I could give up using the TV remote for a week!

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  4. that's my barista; i'd know those rashy thighs anywhere.

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    1. NORMA: We all recall seeing you with your tits out at the Infomaniac Trailer Park.

      I’m sure your barista pays house, er, trailer calls.

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  5. I don't know how far I d go, but two things I'd never give up are toilet paper or wet wipes. I have cousins who live in Ann Arbor and run a community farm.....she is huge into recycling. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if she knew him.

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    1. MISTRESS MADDIE: But don’t use the flushable wipes as they’re clogging sewers worldwide.

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    2. You said anything about flushing? Wait till you see the handy craft I'm making you for Christmas.

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  6. Drinking cheap coffee first thing in the morning helps to bring on a bowel movement. I remember watching an American TV programme called 'Extreme Cheapskates' a housewife was seen cutting up old towels into squares for the family to wipe their arses on, then after a week or so, she would gather them up and launder them. Her toilet must have stank to high heaven.

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    1. MITZI: I found an Extreme Cheapskates article that includes a video clip showing how a woman cleans herself after a “dump”!

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    2. I remember seeing that episode, she hosted a dinner party, and served her guests condemned food, obtained from a bin outside of a restaurant, she even managed to get slices of cake for the lucky dinner guests. Yum!

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  7. Why on earth does he not use foliage or leaves if he already feels the need to skip toilet paper and to pull shit from his arse by hand ?!
    And for heaven's sake, if he does not want to use paper that is produced for this purpose, do what generations did, cut waste paper in form and wipe your arse with it.

    Of course, to be fair, papers before circa 1820 were made from rugs, and hence were better suited to absorb, well whatever. But if he can carry around half of his household's hardware he also can fetch a bloody newspaper and use it as Scheißpapier, leaving a trail of clocked toilets behind ...so he should ad a spate to his equipment and venture to the far edge of the campus.

    To answer your question : Never !. This is shit.

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  8. I already don't go to Starbucks (unless I'm meeting Tim, which is almost never) - what more do you want from me?!?

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    1. MR. DeVICE: You could try using Broom more often than Car.

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