I Am SO Green

The 2008 Ryder Cup office is going green.

I am leading the one-woman recycling crusade in my office. When I started here, people threw away SO much paper… and drank WAY too much pop and threw the cans in the trash.

So, I ordered recycling bins, found the nearest drop-off location, and voila! We have a green office. I actually take the bins and empty them myself, because the city recycling program doesn't extend beyond downtown.

I was naïve though, expecting everyone in the office (all of like, 6 people) to know the protocol of recycling. I was finding random nasty things in those bins quite often.

For instance, last week, I got someone’s disgusting alfredo sauce from their lunch all over my hand because they had dumped their used Lean Cuisine container in the recycle bin.

Seriously?

Alfredo-soaked cardboard is not recyclable, take note.

So, I felt compelled to produce some signage outlining the proper materials to place in the recycle bins.

See photo

I have also had problems with the cleaning lady coming in and emptying the recycle bins into the trash…

Seriously?

That made me violently angry, so I also had to put another disclaimer on the signage, “Please do not empty recycle bins into the trash.”

It makes me upset that I had to actually put that on a sign. The cleaning lady is probably the same person who needs the disclaimer, “Do not use hair dryer in the shower” or “Caution: Coffee is Hot.”

You’d think some things would be obvious.


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