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What's thin and white and chases the recycling truck?

9/7/2014

2 Comments

 
Today I watched a single piece of white office paper travel 50 meters without touching down powered by the heat of exhaust from the garbage truck it was tailing.

Like a kite with no string, it was amazing to watch. How often do you get to see an 8 1/2  x 11 sheet of paper chase a recycling vehicle?  After entertaining me, it settled on a lawn some distance away. My husband dutifully went to fetch it before it could do what litter always does – invite more.

Not to get Biblical or anything, but did you know litter begets litter begets litter, and so on?  Left unattended, one piece of litter will attract others.  A mess accumulates quickly from the hands of littering people.

One of our litter songs hits on the perpetuating nature of litter: “Don’t let litter linger on your lawn too long. It won’t be gone. It travels on and on . . . “

“If you let it linger on your lawn too long, then other people come and pile on and on ...”

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Nepal Highland Treks link
6/29/2020 09:10:03 am

Thank you for the article
For trekking and viewing Everest:


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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:white;'>Everest View Tour Package</span></a></p>

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Nepal Highland Treks link
7/2/2020 07:44:51 pm

Thank you for the article
For trekking and viewing Everest:
https://www.nepalhighlandtreks.com/everest-trekking.html

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