Today (as well as everyday leading up to today) at work I was thinking a lot about the need for recycling. I strongly believe that if we are going to be using such resources, especially with our intense rate of consumption, the least we can be doing is recycling our used products. I work in the iShop Department of Weis. We shop customer's grocery orders and they come to pick it up. This process takes the online order and puts it on a shopping gun, telling us what asile each item is located. The gun has all the information as the online request, yet everyone in the department also prints out a copy of the order. The printer, due to being junky, only is programmed to print on one side of the paper. I have asked the computer tech if he could change it to print on both sides and he replied that because the printer isn't high quality, the paper just gets stuck and he would be there every day for repairs. I'm the only one who does not print out the order and only shops using the gun. When we are done shopping, we upload the order and print the exception report. I print page one, then put the sheet back in the printer and print pages 2 -3, and so forth. It upsets me greatly that I am the only person who is conscientious about how much paper is wasted. I'm almost certain that few of the customers actually look at the stack of paper we had them. On average, each customer probably receives at least 10 pages, one sided, of their order. The thing that is even more aggravating is that the name, iShop, stands for "Internet Shopping" aka all of their order requests and also what items they received ARE ON THE INTERNET. I do my best to save the paper, and choose to take it home instead of throwing the paper out with the other recyclable products in our trash; ironically is a recycle bin. One person can only do so much.
I am glad that I do my part of recycling, but it is nearly not enough to compete with what my co-workers do not recycle. I think of this ratio in a mass scale and it is absolutely saddening.
The earth recycles as dead animals decompose into the soil for new life to flourish. We use the plants for oxygen, as they use us for carbon dioxide. I believe all the answers to life and lessons needed to be learned can be understood through the earth. The word recycle even explains itself, we are cycling the process again. The life cycle recycles itself and therefore creates sustainability.
Recycle the paper, people!! -- it's driving me crazzy
Good for you for doing this and trying to take steps to change the paper recycling issue at work. You never know what might happen if you keep pushing for it! Maybe you could create a recycling program proposal for your bosses for your Environmental Pet Peeve project? And then actually submit it to them. Never know - maybe you could make a substantial change there if they see the benefits in black and white. :) Just a thought!
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