Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

The Pink Mixer loves her mother. Earth, that is.

We realize, with Earth Day happening yesterday and this being Earth Week everyone and their mother (ha.) is busy telling you about the urgency and importance of saving our planet.

We're not going to jump on that soapbox here. (But it is important and urgent.) Instead, we're going to tell you a story.

A few days ago, the brains behind The Pink Mixer had plans to go to a concert. While waiting for the friend who was also attending the concert, she went into a convenience store and bought a plastic bottle of Vitamin Water. When it was time to enter the concert hall, concert-goers were padded down by security and bags were searched. As she suspected they might, the security guards asked our heroine to throw out her Vitamin Water bottle.

She looked at the trashcan. She looked at the security guard. Then, she saw a green recycling bin just a foot behind the security guard, advertising the benefit of recycling our plastic bottles instead of tossing them into the garbage.

"Could I please recycle it instead?" she asked.
"The bins are the same." the security guard snarled.
"But they're not," she insisted. "Could we please recycle it?"
"They. are. THE. SAME." the guard yelled, while grabbing the Vitamin Water bottle from our heroines hand and tossing it in the garbage can.

Our heroine shook her head and walked toward her seat with her friend, who had witnessed the whole unfortunate escapade. Once they both sat down, the heroine turned to her friend. "I can't help but feel terrible," she whispered. "I know that plastic bottle is going to sit in a landfill and will still be sitting there hundreds of years later. Long after I, myself, have left the planet. It doesn't seem fair."

Let's all vow to not live our lives like that nasty security guard. In fact, let's all work extra hard to off-set that sort of mentality. The trash bins and the recycling bins are not the same. Get educated, be smart, do your part to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Mother Earth is going to thank you.

Let's rise to the occasion, yes?

Average Price of a Healthy Planet: Immeasurable
Rating of a Healthy Planet: 5 out of 5!!!