What are the benefits of recycling?

I have been a recycler for the past ten years mainly because it is required where I live.  But truthfully it gives me great satisfaction and it annoys my son.  I don't understand why it is such a difficult task but for years he avoided it.  This year I can say that he has joined not cheerfully but he has helped me and contributes to recycling.

I realize as a result most of the time I personally don't have to put trash out every time they are scheduled to pick up.  So I can see the benefits from my recycling.   Do you have any benefits or any  ways we can help to make recycling even more beneficial for us?  

Why am I here?

Be careful what you touch...

Well with my last job I was always concerned with the things that I came in contact with on a daily basis.  I remember one day I went into a house  and had to leave because I started coughing violently - I did wonder about what I came in contact with while in the house.   I always tried to shield my body from contacting the bushes, weeds and sometimes flower customers' has outside when making my deliveries.  As a matter of fact I would always try and wear gloves because you just never knew what someone else touched before your touched a door or gate.  I thought perhaps I was becoming obsessive compulsive.  I mean I even make sure I use my own pen when I have to sign a receipt because who knows if personal hygiene is top of their list or the other people that have used that pen.  It looks like you just can't win no matter what you do.

This article talks about a  potential  hazard that I feel mainly everyone has been exposed to.

Our health we have to take care of ourselves.  Here is another article on  painkillers and blood clots.

FYI  for people with Ms and Blood Clots.  

Who has rights?

It always fascinates me  on how the world works.  We try to follow rules in regulations in society and at work and we end paying for the others.  We don't go to jail but our taxes go to benefit the prisons and the inmates. Did you know that people receive carfare checks when they are receiving treatment for substance abuse?  I have worked all my life and never have been sent a carfare check.

Well here is  a case where a family hired someone to take care of their children.  It did not work out and they are afraid that they may be locked out of their home.


The world we live in today is so frightening.

What is in.....

Life was so easy a child. If you were lucky you had parents or guardians that taught you right from wrong and shielded you from harm.  As you got older you had to learn responsibility but you still had mom, dad , or an adult in your life. Then boom you were on your own still  a little unaware of the results of  your actions but using the principles on the way you were raised to deal with life and people.

That was quite sometime ago.... but know it just seems nothing you have learned can help with the possible repercussions of what you eat and drink.  I mean we are generally more health conscious with a host of all the diseases and diagnosis of today.

This is always crosses my mind when I eat anything or drink because we really don't know.  We are not in the restaurant when it is first purchased and we are not in orchards when fruit is harvested. Even with labels we do not know what we are getting because is every product being inspected from beginning to end, What really goes into the products we use as consumers.

I thought that products are to be labeled so that the consumer knew what they were getting. Soap has to be labeled.

If you drink beer it appears that it has ingredients that only the manufacturer' s know but the final  choice is ours.