My new year's resolution usually fizzles out just as the year ceases to be quite so new. It dies out even before I stop muddling up the date. Which brings me to my eco-friendly resolves, each one of them. Poor things.
It is Earth Day tomorrow. The day we promise not to traumatize mother earth again. To choose cars responsibly. To walk more. To switch off anything that can be switched off after use. To waste not. To recycle.
Have any of you tried to carry a cloth bag, Mumbai style, to the supermarket? I have. And felt like a total idiot. Not just that, the minute I righteously whipped out my bag at the check-out counter, I felt ten pairs of staring eyes with the unspoken accusation "hot fingers!". To the more genteel of you, this means shoplifter :-).
And then of course there is the matter of packaging. My biscottis come in a plastic wrap sealed paper carton. Each biscotti is individually wrapped for convenience and freshness. Poor mother earth. I am expected to collect every scrap of plastic and save it for recycling. Ha! Like I have the time! Bet half of you would not care either. So the only true solution would be to cut down on packaging! My contribution would be to buy biscotti sold without triple wrapping.
Tonight I am going to dream of disposable plastic bottles. It will, obviously, be a nightmare. Since I will be dreaming anyway, I will find a way to live without them.
Suchir korcha naki rojnamcha??
ReplyDeleteRoj aar dum thake na..sansar-er thelay jai jai obostha :-)
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