10/08/2007 -- Monday
I don’t have classes to teach until 11 AM. Before departing to the college, I am reading email and looking at the things in my study. Why not start right in this room. Surely, I can find one bag here, but I need to caution myself not to become too ambitious. Only one bag! I never seem to be able to do something exactly as planned so I ended up with three bags.
Today, one bag of books containing a World Book Atlas, twelve 1980s photo magazines, and 2 books on photo filters were donated to my local public library, also one bag of papers from elementary and middle school parent groups in which I did volunteer work was put in my paper recycling bin for this Friday’s pickup. A third and smaller bag of stuff consisted of small bottles and tubes of things like hand lotion and toothpaste that I’d saved after partially using at hotels. I decided this was just plain trash and put it in my garbage. As I was doing this I realized that I need to be more cognizant of conservation in the future by bringing my own supplies to use, by consolidating supplies I bring home, or by donating such supplies to a local shelter.
There will be no real effect on my life from today’s elimination of goods. I can easily access map, photo, and filter information on the Internet. I can’t replace the materials put into the recycling bin, but the essence of this information, if not copies of the same materials, may be available in the schools’ archives. Next time I come upon volunteer-group papers, I might contact the group before disposing of the materials to see if someone is interested in adding them to the archives.
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