4.22.2005
this thing is still here?
lets see, it was Mani's birthday last thursday 4/14. Happy birthday man(i). you still d man. today I heard a program regarding paper/plastic at the grocery store and the choice was 'neither'. I made that choice a few months back. to be honest I was just sick and tired of all the plastic bags at home that I didn't know what to do with. they give a plastic bag for even one item; sign of respect or status I guess, 'we can do it so we will' sort of thing. the situation is even worst in iran. the entire country is covered by them from the mountains to the beaches. they'r like tumble weed in the deserts. the funny thing is the traditional hand held bags 'zanbil' were actualy hard to find. I finaly found one near south of the city by shaabdolazim. the grocer (sabzee fooroosh) got a kick out of it. he says no one uses them anymore. now I just say no bag please or get a paper to put the recycle stuff in. amazing how the clutter has died down. Ikea has a realy cool plastic bag holder though, other purposes too. gotta pick one up next time. they also talked about warm/cold disposable cups in US. some scary number like 6 billion pieces a year get tossed in the trash and cant be recycled due to the coating. I glanced at my commuter cup, it even traveled to europe and iran with me. these things take so little effort but in the grand scale make such a difference. good luck convicing people that it does. I was in the pits before the war in iraq. didn't realy see any effects of what ever I was doing. protest, recycle, buy a diesel car, ... was realy having a hard time making sense of things and going into a realy bad place, completely hopeless and helpless. from somewhere I heard something of the effect 'you dont have to change anything by yourself. just anticipate the movement and be a part of it'. so right on. catch up movement :)
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lets see, it was Mani's birthday last thursday 4/14. Happy birthday man(i). you still d man. today I heard a program regarding paper/plastic at the grocery store and the choice was 'neither'. I made that choice a few months back. to be honest I was just sick and tired of all the plastic bags at home that I didn't know what to do with. they give a plastic bag for even one item; sign of respect or status I guess, 'we can do it so we will' sort of thing. the situation is even worst in iran. the entire country is covered by them from the mountains to the beaches. they'r like tumble weed in the deserts. the funny thing is the traditional hand held bags 'zanbil' were actualy hard to find. I finaly found one near south of the city by shaabdolazim. the grocer (sabzee fooroosh) got a kick out of it. he says no one uses them anymore. now I just say no bag please or get a paper to put the recycle stuff in. amazing how the clutter has died down. Ikea has a realy cool plastic bag holder though, other purposes too. gotta pick one up next time. they also talked about warm/cold disposable cups in US. some scary number like 6 billion pieces a year get tossed in the trash and cant be recycled due to the coating. I glanced at my commuter cup, it even traveled to europe and iran with me. these things take so little effort but in the grand scale make such a difference. good luck convicing people that it does. I was in the pits before the war in iraq. didn't realy see any effects of what ever I was doing. protest, recycle, buy a diesel car, ... was realy having a hard time making sense of things and going into a realy bad place, completely hopeless and helpless. from somewhere I heard something of the effect 'you dont have to change anything by yourself. just anticipate the movement and be a part of it'. so right on. catch up movement :)
